As a result, Brown declared the black slaves free, whether they wanted to be or not, and demanded they go with him. While he was in the elder Shackleford’s barber’s chair, he was recognized, and an armed conflict erupted. One figure in the conflict was the abolitionist John Brown. During the late 1850s, pro-slavers and free-staters were in an armed conflict regarding the question. Residents of the Kansas Territory were to vote on whether they would be a free or slave state. The tavern, located on the Missouri border with Kansas, was often frequented with people from the Kansas Territory. Both Harry and his father were slaves of Dutch Henery. As a youth, Harry was with his father as he was cutting hair in Dutch’s tavern. The part that we know is fiction concerns Harry Shackleford. How much is based on fact and how much is fiction is hard to tell. Or so we are led to believe by author, James McBride. At least it tells his story as remembered by Harry “The Onion” Shackleford. What do you remember learning about the abolitionist John Brown? “The Good Lord Bird” is a book of fiction that is more than anything John Brown’s story.
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