His charisma, courage, and ample intellect allowed him to escape slavery himself and to allow others to do the same through the Underground Railroad and by preaching and fundraising. The third episode, “Mister Fred”, changes that dynamic somewhat by introducing another historical figure, another American hero, who is just as wild and eccentric and self-obsessed – the Mister Fred of the title, Frederick Douglass, here played by Daveed Diggs, having long-since honed a talent for grandiose verbosity on-stage with Hamilton.ĭouglass is a fixture of every retelling of American history as an undeniable component of dismantling slavery as an institution. Since The Good Lord Bird began, it has revolved – despite being told from the perspective of another character altogether – around the insistent black-hole gravity of Ethan Hawke’s absurdly charismatic performance as famed nutty abolitionist John Brown.
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