"Asante to Basel"

The assembly at which Asante was first told to leave Akim consisted of Ata and the elders of Kibi, Apedwa, and Apapam, and the 'people': The two charges preferred against him were that he had taken the initiative in getting Ata's slaves baptised, and had taken the initiative in getting people from Ata's own household whose duty it was to serve him to discontinue doing so. Asante claims that neither of these is true; he does claim on the other hand that he protected the ex-slaves against their former masters (including the Okyenhene) when they fled onto the station, and indeed anywhere else - and he had done this on the instructions of Gouldsbury. He has put pressure on the servants of the Okyenhene’s family to stay in his household as long as people allowed them to, also telling them what duties were and that duties were not consistent with serving God.

20.09.1877

20.09.1877

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