"Widmann to Basel"

Glad that the operation of H.N. Riis succeeded well. Difficulties for a teacher for West Indians: Alexander Clerk refuses to come to Akropong again. So Dieterle must take care of this school. Difficulties with the West Indians: They demand more and more salary although they get three times more for the same work as the local Africans get. Understanding the psychology of colonists, comparison with the Israelites in the desert. A pity that there is no other work for them than the sawing. They neglect their farms and must buy all foodstuffs. The Ashanti school: 17 girls now in school as well, taught domestic work by Mrs. Widmann in the afternoons.

06.04.1847

06.04.1847

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