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Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom (1985)

Directed by Barry Crane

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.”

Length 113 minutes

Actors

Mary Alice | Ned Beatty | Carla Borelli | Moses Gunn | Anna Maria Horsford | Bruce McGill | Melba Moore | Jay Patterson | Vyto Ruginis | Glynn Turman | Rodrick F. Wimberly | Oyafunmike Ogunlano