Released:
1985-02-25

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."

Director:
Barry Crane

Runtime:
1h 53min

Genre:
Drama, History, TV Movie

• Cast:
• 
  Mary Alice
  as
  Blind Lily
• 
  Ned Beatty
  as
  Rev. Mansfield French
• 
  Carla Borelli
  as
  Laura Towne
• 
  Ariane Brandt
  as
  Ellen
• 
  Ed Danilowicz
  as
  Commissioner McKim