Cast of
Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom

About Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom

  • Released on February 25, 1985

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."

Full Cast of Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom

Mary Alice
plays Blind Lily

Ned Beatty
plays Reverend Mansfield French

Carla Borelli
plays Laura Towne

Moses Gunn
plays Hannibal

Anna Maria Horsford
plays Hannah

Anna Maria Horsford as Hannah

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Bruce McGill
plays Edward Philbrick

Bruce McGill as Edward Philbrick

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Melba Moore
plays Charlotte Forten

Jay Patterson
plays Edward Pierce

Vyto Ruginis
plays Col. Thomas Higginson

Vyto Ruginis as Col. Thomas Higginson

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Glynn Turman
plays Joshua

Glynn Turman as Joshua

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Rodrick F. Wimberly
plays Jacob

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