Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom (1985)
1985 · 1h 53m · Drama, History, TV Movie
Genres: 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…
Director: Barry Crane
Writers: Samm-Art Williams
Editor: John Carter
Cast
Mary Alice as Blind LilyNed Beatty as Rev. Mansfield FrenchCarla Borelli as Laura TowneAriane Brandt as EllenEd Danilowicz as Commissioner McKimMicki Grant as LenaMoses Gunn as HannibalAnna Maria Horsford as HannahRobert Jacob as Soldier in the BandBruce McGill as Edward PhilbrickMelba Moore as Charlotte FortenJay Patterson as Edward PierceMore like this
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