Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom 1985
Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom
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."
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."
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Full Cast & Crew... Blind Lily
... Reverend Mansfield French
... Laura Towne
... Ellen
... Hannibal
... Commissioner McKim
Release Date:
Feb 25, 1985 (United States)
Run Time:
1hr 53`
MMPA Rating:
Original Language:
English
Production Countries:
United States
Status:
Released

Cast & Crew of
Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom
Directors & Credit Writers
... First Assistant Director
BC
Barry Crane... Director
Cast
... Blind Lily
... Reverend Mansfield French
... Laura Towne
... Ellen
... Hannibal
... Commissioner McKim
... Hannah
MG
Micki Grant... Lena
... Edward Philbrick
... Charlotte Forten
... Edward Pierce
... Col. Thomas Higginson
RJ
Robert Jacob... Soldier in the Band
... Joshua
... Jacob
...
CT
Connie Trask... Mrs. Lawrence
... Sgt. Rivas