Episode cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Ethan Hawke | ... | John Brown | |
Hubert Point-Du Jour | ... | Bob | |
Beau Knapp | ... | Owen Brown | |
Nick Eversman | ... | John Brown Jr. | |
Ellar Coltrane | ... | Salmon Brown | |
Jack Alcott | ... | Jason Brown | |
Mo Brings Plenty | ... | Ottawa Jones | |
Joshua Caleb Johnson | ... | Henry 'Onion' Shackleford | |
Wyatt Russell | ... | J.E.B. Stuart | |
Adam Shapiro | ... | Jew Weiner | |
Ben Dickey | ... | Ian Brown | |
David Morse | ... | Dutch Henry Sherman | |
Derrick Baskin | ... | Gus Shackleford | |
Brooke Bloom | ... | Doyle's Wife | |
Keith David | ... | Herbert |
Henry Shackleford, a young slave living in the Kansas territory in 1856, has a run-in with abolitionist John Brown, who mistakes him for a girl and promptly "frees" him. Believing Henry to be his good luck charm, Brown welcomes him into his ragtag army and nicknames him "Onion." Donning a dress for the first time while dodging bullets, Onion quickly awakens to the life or death stakes in the battle over human bondage and witnesses Brown's divinely inspired violent agenda: to free the land of slavery by any means necessary. Series premiere. Written by SHOWTIME