Ethan Hawke
John Brown / Writer / Executive Producer
Ethan Hawke stars as abolitionist John Brown in this series based on the novel. "Onion" is a fictional enslaved boy who becomes a member of Brown's family of abolitionist soldiers and finds himself in the 1859 raid at Harpers Ferry.
John Brown / Writer / Executive Producer
Henry 'Little Onion' Shackleford
Bob
Owen Brown
John Brown Jr.
Salmon Brown
Jason Brown
Ottawa Jones
Broadnax
Shields Green / 'Emperor'
Frederick Douglass
James Ewell Brown Stuart
John Cook
Dangerfield Newby
Attucks Copeland
Lewis Leary
Coachman Jim
O.P. Anderson
Chase
The Rail Man
