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Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom

19851h 53mMovieDramaHistoryTV 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…

DirectorBarry Crane
WriterSamm-Art Williams
ProducersYanna Kroyt Brandt·Shep Morgan

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Cast · Directed by Barry Crane

MAMary Alice
Mary Alice
Blind Lily
NBNed Beatty
Ned Beatty
Rev. Mansfield French
CB
Carla Borelli
Laura Towne
AB
Ariane Brandt
Ellen
ED
Ed Danilowicz
Commissioner McKim
MG
Micki Grant
Lena
MGMoses Gunn
Moses Gunn
Hannibal
AHAnna Maria Horsford
Anna Maria Horsford
Hannah
RJ
Robert Jacob
Soldier in the Band
BMBruce McGill
Bruce McGill
Edward Philbrick
MMMelba Moore
Melba Moore
Charlotte Forten
JPJay Patterson
Jay Patterson
Edward Pierce

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