"Lodholz' Report for the Second Quarter 1870"

The report is concerned with discipline problems in the community. A large part is taken up with the case of the youth and the girl who had to be excluded for adultery. Another problem however, was the discovery that Sam. Amoa, the carpenter taught by_Eisenschmid who for a long time had been active as a carpenter on his own, was in debt to the tune of 144 dollars (4 Pereguan). The missionaries were suspicious of this – they felt that the origins were almost certainly a severe punishment for some misdemeanour punishable in native law - adultery, or false swearing of an oath. It turned out, however, that this was a debt incurred at the time Amoa was working for Christaller. Lodholz offers another example of a boy on the station who had taken over part of a family debt, and it had doubled in the course of a year - interest rates were one of the worst evils in Akim. Everyone had apparently expected that the missionaries would pay Amoa’s debts for him, While in Begoro Asante had suffered an attack of guinea worm, and had heard of the death of a child.

21.07.1870

21.07.1870

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