Watch Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom (1985) Online

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." Read More

Watch Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom online. Featuring Mary Alice and Ned Beatty, Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom is classified as Drama and History genre movie with an average rating across the web of 0. It is available for streaming online in the UK on 1 services such as Amazon Video. The movie was filmed in United States of America and was released on 1985. Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom was directed by Barry Crane,Dwight Williams. Read Less