A fictional account of Henry 'Onion' Shackleford, an enslaved boy who becomes part of John Brown's abolitionist crew during Bleeding Kansas and participates in the famous raid on Harpers Ferry.
Told from the perspective of Henry 'Little Onion' Shackleford, a newly freed teenager who joins abolitionist John Brown on a holy crusade to end slavery. Onion encounters Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman, and he finds himself as a part of the famous 1859 raid at Harpers Ferry.
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