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Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom

Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom

19851h 53m

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."

Directed by Barry Crane
Written by Samm-Art Williams
Produced by Yanna Kroyt Brandt
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Mary Alice

Mary Alice

Blind Lily

Ned Beatty

Ned Beatty

Rev. Mansfield French

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Carla Borelli

Laura Towne

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Ariane Brandt

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Ed Danilowicz

Commissioner McKim

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Micki Grant

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Moses Gunn

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Anna Maria Horsford

Anna Maria Horsford

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Robert Jacob

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About Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom

Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom is a drama, history, tv movie film released in 1985. Directed by Barry Crane, it stars Mary Alice, Ned Beatty, Carla Borelli. 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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