James McBride

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Starring Ethan Hawke as John Brown, this adaptation is based on the novel by James McBride.   Winner of the 2013 National Book Award for Fiction   Henry Shackleford is a young slave living in the Kansas Territory in 1857, when the region is a battleground between anti- and pro-slavery forces. When John Brown, the legendary abolitionist,