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Summary Information
Walter B. Cockerill Papers
1911-1915, 1951-1958
Wis Mss NJ
0.2 c.f. (1 archives box)
Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)
Papers of Walter Cockerill, a Milton Junction, Wisconsin man who served as a Seventh Day Baptist missionary in Nyasaland (now Malawi), British Central Africa in 1914-1915 during the period of Chilembwe's uprising, a native revolt. British authorities accused Cockerill and other foreign missionaries of teaching sedition and deported them. The collection consists primarily of letters, and also related papers, publications, and one photograph. The letters, 1911-1913, are from native preachers to Australian missionary Joseph Booth, and a small group of letters are from Cockerill to his family describing his work, local conditions, and analyses and observations of the rebellion. The bulk of the correspondence, 1952-1958, is between Cockerill and Scottish historian George Shepperson, who used his documents and recollections to write a history of the uprising (Independent African: John Chilembwe and the Origins, Setting and Significance of the Nyasaland Native Rising of 1915 (Edinburgh, 1958)).
English
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