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."
Cast Of - Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom
Crew Members
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
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