Papers, 1902, 1911-1915, 1950-1964.

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Papers, 1902, 1911-1915, 1950-1964.

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Papers of Walter B. Cockerill, a resident of Milton Junction, Wis., who served as a Seventh Day Baptist missionary in Nyasaland, British Central Africa in 1914-1915 during the period of Chilembwe's uprising, a native revolt. British authorities accused Cockerill and other missionaries of teaching sedition and deported them. Letters to his family from Nyasaland give contemporary accounts of conditions. Later papers include correspondence with George Shepperson, Scottish historian and author of a history of the uprising published in 1958. Also present are letters, 1911-1913, from native preachers to Australian missionary Joseph Booth. The processed portion is summarized above and is described in the register. Additional accessions are described below.

0.2 c.f. (1 archives box); plus0.4 c.f. of additions.

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Cockerill, Walter B.

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Shepperson, George

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George Shepperson was born in Peterborough, England in 1922. After studying history and English at Cambridge University, he was seconded as an officer to the King's African Rifles during the Second World War. Serving alongside African soldiers in Burma, he became interested in examining how war and slavery forged the African Diaspora. While stationed in East Africa, he became interested in how African communities were incorporated into the British Empire. These experiences bolstered...

Booth, Joseph, 1851-1932

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