Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom (1985)
Synopsis
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."
Release Date: 1985-02-25
Runtime: 113 minutes
Director: Barry Crane
Top Cast
- Mary Alice as Blind Lily
- Ned Beatty as Rev. Mansfield French
- Carla Borelli as Laura Towne
- Ariane Brandt as Ellen
- Ed Danilowicz as Commissioner McKim
- Micki Grant as Lena
- Moses Gunn as Hannibal
- Anna Maria Horsford as Hannah
- Robert Jacob as Soldier in the Band
- Bruce McGill as Edward Philbrick
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Original Music Composer(s): N/A
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