"Ramseyer to Basel"

This is a typewritten copy of the original of a letter which was published in the Sklavenfreund pp 130-36 (not dated there) with basic information concerning the party of ex-slaves handed over to him by Resident Pigeot and the first few weeks of their state on the Kumasi mission compound. In the Sklavenfreund is also a note (on p 136) that the engraving of the executioners dance used in Sklavenfreund and Heidenbote was based on the memories of missionaries Buck and Huppenbauer who saw this dace during their stay in Kumasi in 1881. The letter is also published in Le Missionaire 1897, p.19ff in a French version. The Heidenbote 1897, pp.19-22 also carries the letter with three photographs of the mission compound and the freed slaves.

24.11.1896

24.11.1896

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