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."
Directed by Barry Crane · Written by Samm-Art Williams
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Mary Alice Blind Lily -
Ned Beatty Rev. Mansfield French - Carla Borelli Laura Towne
- Ariane Brandt Ellen
- Ed Danilowicz Commissioner McKim
- Micki Grant Lena
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Moses Gunn Hannibal -
Anna Maria Horsford Hannah - Robert Jacob Soldier in the Band
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Bruce McGill Edward Philbrick -
Melba Moore Charlotte Forten -
Jay Patterson Edward Pierce
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