Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom

Synopsis

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."

Main Cast

Mary Alice

Blind Lily

Age : N/A | Popularity : 21%

Ned Beatty

Reverend Mansfield French

Age : N/A | Popularity : 94%

Carla Borelli

Laura Towne

Age : N/A | Popularity : 14%

Moses Gunn

Hannibal

Age : 64 | Popularity : 41%

Anna Maria Horsford

Hannah

Age : 76 | Popularity : 69%

Bruce McGill

Edward Philbrick

Age : N/A | Popularity : 100%

Melba Moore

Charlotte Forten

Age : 78 | Popularity : 35%

Jay Patterson

Edward Pierce

Age : 70 | Popularity : 28%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Barry Crane
	First Assistant Director	Dwight Williams
Editing	Editor	John Carter
	Assistant Editor	Lillian Benson
Art	Property Master	Gary Towles
Department	Role	Name

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