"Joint Letter from the Anum Missionaries (Müller's Handwriting)"

This is a reply to a letter from the Committee in Basel dated 2nd October 1868, which the missionaries read as being critical of their allowing themselves to be forced to pay money for the war. The force of the Basel letter appears to be lost by their trying to draw a distinction between money which is extorted, and legal war taxation. The fresh light on the situation around Anum: The missionaries do not think, now, that the war will come to a speedy end. And indeed, having heard the history of relations between Anum and Akwamu over the last hundred years, it is difficult to see how peace can be achieved without the thorough defeat of one tribe or the other.

26.11.1868

26.11.1868

Text