Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom (1985)
Drama
History
TV Movie
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."
Cast
Blind Lily
Rev. Mansfield French
Charlotte Forten
Edward Pierce
Col. Thomas Higginson
Mrs. Lawrence
Joshua
Sgt. Rivas
Jacob
Slave / Ring Shout Dancer
Laura Towne
Ellen
Commissioner McKim
Lena
Hannibal
Hannah
Soldier in the Band
Edward Philbrick
Crew
Director
Editor
First Assistant Director
Property Master
Assistant Editor
Writer
Associate Producer
Producer
Executive Producer