Storyline
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."
Key Information
Cast & Crew
Mary Alice
Blind Lily
Ned Beatty
Rev. Mansfield French
Carla Borelli
Laura Towne
Ariane Brandt
Ellen
Ed Danilowicz
Commissioner McKim
Micki Grant
Lena
Moses Gunn
Hannibal
Anna Maria Horsford
Hannah
Robert Jacob
Soldier in the Band
Bruce McGill
Edward Philbrick
Melba Moore
Charlotte Forten
Jay Patterson
Edward Pierce
Frequently Asked Questions
Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom was released on February 25, 1985.
The runtime of Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom is 1h 53m.
Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom is a Drama, History, TV Movie movie.
Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom is available to watch. Check streaming platforms and theaters near you.
Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom was directed by Barry Crane.
The main cast of Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom includes Mary Alice, Ned Beatty, Carla Borelli.
Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom is originally in English.