Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom

1985
Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom
5.5| 1h53m| en| Drama, History
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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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  • Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom Cast
Mary Alice as Blind Lily
Ned Beatty as Rev. Mansfield French
Moses Gunn as Hannibal
Bruce McGill as Edward Philbrick
Melba Moore as Charlotte Forten
Jay Patterson as Edward Pierce
Vyto Ruginis as Col. Thomas Higginson
Glynn Turman as Joshua