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WILLIAM PARSONS MCCORKLE PAPERS, #450, 1806-1922

Papers of McCorkle and of his father, Alexander B. McCorkle, both Presbyterian ministers of Alabama, Virginia, and North Carolina. Early papers include a diary kept by Lucila Agnes (Cambol) McCorkle of Talladega, Alabama, which contains frequent references to household slaves and relates an account of a slave insurrection in Talladega that resulted in the hanging of several slaves (1858-1860).