"Ramseyer to Basel"

Reports a case in which the (ex-slave) housemother of the ex-slave children had been found involved in the theft of two of the young girls. A French version is printed in full in Le Missionaire 1897 pp90ff. Ramseyer discovered what had happened to the children by appointing two of his Asante schoolboys. The Kumasi magistrate (Dr Hall, doubling as doctor) had tried to use Hausa soldiers to find out what had happened, but Ramseyer had been sceptical of their usefulness, when investigations of their own people were involved. The names of the people involved were Fatima (Housemother) Amma Bomadeng and Samadourounya (the two stolen girls) Makla (Fatima's daughter) Cetera and Soungourour (probably also from the ex-slaves home?) Fatima's accomplices.

04.10.1897

04.10.1897

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