actor

Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom

0 %|Feb 25, 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."

Featured Crew

Barry Crane
Director
John Carter
Editor
Dwight Williams
First Assistant Director
Gary Towles
Property Master
Lillian Benson
Assistant Editor
Samm-Art Williams
Writer
Preston L. Holmes
Associate Producer
Yanna Kroyt Brandt
Producer

Cast

actor
Mary Alice
Blind Lily
actor
Ned Beatty
Rev. Mansfield French
actor
Carla Borelli
Laura Towne
actor
Ed Danilowicz
Commissioner McKim
actor
Moses Gunn
Hannibal
actor
Robert Jacob
Soldier in the Band
actor
Bruce McGill
Edward Philbrick
actor
Melba Moore
Charlotte Forten
actor
Jay Patterson
Edward Pierce
actor
Vyto Ruginis
Col. Thomas Higginson
actor
Connie Trask
Mrs. Lawrence
actor
Lou Walker
Sgt. Rivas
actor
Oyafunmike Ogunlano
Slave / Ring Shout Dancer