George Shepperson, Edinburgh, Scotland, letter to Walter B. Cockerill, Milton Junction, Wisconsin, 1954 May 26
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Scope and Content Note: Writer wishes to see the Africans' letters to Booth; the rebelling Africans decapitated William J. Livingstone, estate manager for the Bruce Estates at Magomero; there are parallels between Chilembwe, the German Anabaptists, and the English and Scottish regicides; Booth's daughter Mary was the offspring of his second wife who was of English or South African nationality; the official 1916 commission of inquiry does not mention Cockerill; Booth might have sent the Berean Bibles, but there were considerable Russellite elements in Scotland who also might have sent them; no newspaper has ever shown that the “tangata” system was a cause behind the uprising.