I had a two months of discounted Showtime thanks to Amazon, so I gave this show a try and ended up really liking it. My overall knowledge / recollection from school of what I was taught about John Brown was pretty much gone, so I went into watching this with a blank slate. Thumbs up!
The Good Lord Bird: Created by Ethan Hawke. With Ethan Hawke, Hubert Point-Du Jour, Beau Knapp, Nick Eversman. 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...
Intersting fact I found out, the Battle Hymn of the Republic was actually written to the music from the song John Brown’s Body.
The "Battle Hymn of the Republic", also known as "Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory" outside of the United States, is a popular American patriotic song by the abolitionist writer Julia Ward Howe.
Howe wrote her lyrics to the music of the song "John Brown's Body" in November 1861 and first published them in The Atlantic Monthly in February 1862. The song links the judgment of the wicked at the end of the age (through allusions to biblical passages such as Isaiah 63:1–6 and Revelation 14:19) with th...
"John Brown's Body" (originally known as "John Brown's Song") is a United States marching song about the abolitionist John Brown. The song was popular in the Union during the American Civil War. The tune arose out of the folk hymn tradition of the American camp meeting movement of the late 18th and early 19th century. According to an 1889 account, the original John Brown lyrics were a collective effort by a group of Union soldiers who were referring both to the famous John Brown and also, humorou...
