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Nov 1, 2020 · Onion, a formerly enslaved boy with absolutely zero rabble-rousing skills, is sent to “hive the bees,” i.e. convince other slaves and free Black people to join the rebellion, as if his own black...
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Nov 3, 2020 · Brown, he says, picked a terrible town for rounding up as many Black people as possible (i.e., “hiving the bees”), given that most of the Black people in Harpers Ferry are enslaved women and children, not men. Brown isn’t enslaved people’s best man, but he is their best shot.
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The Good Lord Bird is a 2020 American historical drama television miniseries, based on the 2013 novel of the same name by James McBride. Focusing on John Brown's attack on American slavery, the series was created and executive produced by Ethan Hawke and Mark Richard.
Chapter 1 Summary: “Meet the Lord”. The novel opens with the line, “I was born a colored man and don’t you forget it. But I lived as a colored woman for seventeen years” (7). The narrator is Henry Shackleford. Henry’s mother died giving birth to him.
When an argument between Brown and Henry's master turns violent, Henry is forced to leave town--along with Brown, who believes Henry to be a girl and his good luck charm. Over...
The Good Lord Bird is a 2013 novel by James McBride about Henry Shackleford, an enslaved person, who unites with John Brown in Brown's abolitionist mission. The novel won the National Book Award for Fiction in 2013 and received generally positive reviews from critics.
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Aug 4, 2013 · At Harpers Ferry, Onion is given the futile task of rousting up slaves (“hiving bees”) to participate in the great armed insurrection that Brown envisions but never sees. Outrageously funny, sad, and consistently unflattering, McBride puts a human face on a nation at its most divided.
