Release Date

25 Feb, 1985

Runtime

01:53: (HH:MM)

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."

Original Title

Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom

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Actors

Mary Alice

Ned Beatty

Carla Borelli

Ariane Brandt

Ed Danilowicz

Micki Grant

Moses Gunn

Anna Maria Horsford

Robert Jacob

Bruce McGill

Melba Moore

Jay Patterson

Vyto Ruginis

Connie Trask

Glynn Turman

Lou Walker

Rodrick F. Wimberly

Oyafunmike Ogunlano

Crew

John Carter

Dwight Williams

Gary Towles

Barry Crane

Lillian Benson

Samm-Art Williams

Preston L. Holmes

Yanna Kroyt Brandt

Shep Morgan