Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom

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Released February 25, 1985

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."

Runtime

1h 53m


Origin Country

United States


Original Language

English


Original Title

Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom


Status

Released


Production Countries

  • United States of America

Spoken Languages

  • English

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