The Good Lord Bird
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tvguide.comThe Good Lord Bird — Showtime's adaptation of James McBride's National Book Award-winning historical novel written, produced by, and starring Ethan Hawke as legendary abolitionist John Brown — premieres Oct.
4, and TV Guide has an exclusive look at the new trailer for the highly anticipated limited series. John Brown was a white man who fought against slavery in antebellum America — literally.
Many abolitionists at the time were pacifists, but John Brown was not. He was willing to kill and die for the cause, and he did.
He fought in the Bleeding Kansas battles over slavery in 1856, and led an attempted slave uprising in Virginia in 1859. He was hanged for treason after that, but his fight helped galvanize abolitionists and was an important.
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