St. Catherines Island

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A family, pictured in the 1880s, stands outside old slave quarters on St. Catherines Island. The island served as the headquarters for Tunis Campbell, an agent of the Freedmen's Bureau who was assigned to supervise land claims and resettlement on five Georgia islands after the Civil War.

Courtesy of Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Georgia Libraries, William Ernest Wilson photographs, ms993.

A Black family, primarily women and children, stand in front of a tabby structure.