Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom

Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom

1985
1h 53m
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Overview

At the beginning of the Civil War, Union gunboats sailed into Port Royal Sound, on the Sea Islands off the coast of Georgia. White plantation owners fled, and the 10,000 blacks who lived there, almost all of whom were slaves, were freed in the first test of President Abraham Lincoln's dream of emancipation. Charlotte Forten, a 21-year-old educated black woman, helped the freed slaves to begin to build a new society. That experience forms the plot of this drama, based on Charlotte Forten's journals, which was telecast on "American Playhouse."

Status: Released

Language: EN

Production Information

Production Countries
United States of America
Spoken Languages
English

Quick Facts

Release Date February 25, 1985
Status Released
Language EN

Cast

Mary Alice
Mary Alice

Blind Lily

Ned Beatty
Ned Beatty

Rev. Mansfield French

Carla Borelli
Carla Borelli

Laura Towne

Ariane Brandt
Ariane Brandt

Ellen

Ed Danilowicz
Ed Danilowicz

Commissioner McKim

Micki Grant
Micki Grant

Lena

Moses Gunn
Moses Gunn

Hannibal

Anna Maria Horsford
Anna Maria Horsford

Hannah

Robert Jacob
Robert Jacob

Soldier in the Band

Bruce McGill
Bruce McGill

Edward Philbrick

Melba Moore
Melba Moore

Charlotte Forten

Jay Patterson
Jay Patterson

Edward Pierce

Key Crew

Barry Crane
Director
Samm-Art Williams
Writer
Yanna Kroyt Brandt
Producer
Shep Morgan
Executive Producer

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