"Date's Annual Report for 1881"

He expresses himself as worried by the great promotion to being pastor of the Kibi congregation with its many responsibilities, including the building work required. He seems to have a directing role. He reports opposition to the conversion of slave families, one from Tumfa and one from Apedwa, the slaves involved being related, however. In both cases a letter from Date threatening Government action succeeded in overcoming the opposition. In the Tumfa case the master was called Odoe. The slave was stripped of the property when caught on his way to Kibi: 9 dollars gold dust (Date gives the sterling equivalent £2), 3 cloths of his own and two of his wives seen into one long cloth 'as is our custom', 5 mats, 3 fowls, 1 axe, and one of his two young children. All this property was apparently reclaimed after Date's letter. The new Kibi catechumens seem to have come mostly individually, but one group of 12 came forward.

31.12.1881

31.12.1881

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