"Asante's Report on the Boarding School in 1876"

The pupils are from several inland tribes, and brought by their parents - not as before recruited after hard work by the missionaries, In fact many boys had to be turned away. 44 is the largest number they can accommodate. Most of the new pupils are small boys. No pupils were expelled (in spite of a rule that the third detected lie would be punished by expulsion) - and one was transferred to the Akropong Middle School. The school and the pupils had a troubled year. At beginning some of the ex-slave boys were severely treated - even beaten - by their ex-masters. They were also forced to give an 8-week holiday instead of the usual 3 week holiday, because with the presence of Hausa soldiers followed by the Juaben refuges there was a severe shortage of food. At the end of the year they were again forced to give an unexpected vacation due to an epidemic of chicken pox. They have started a farm on land beyond the mission land's boundaries to the South-East.

05.01.1877

05.01.1877

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