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The good lord bird is told from the point of view of onion joshua johnsonlionel, blackish, a fictional enslaved boy, who is part of john browns ethan hawke motley crew of abolitionist soldiers during the time of bleeding kansas, eventually participating in the. James mcbride is the author of the new york times bestselling memoir and 2004 one book. Mar 02, 2014 the good lord bird is a tale of the antebellum south like none youve heard. His subject is john brown and the failed raid on the federal armory at harpers ferry in 1861. Supersummary, a modern alternative to sparknotes and cliffsnotes, offers highquality study guides for challenging works of literature.
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