"Stanger's report October-December 1851"

Extracts from his diary. Story of the fate of a Donko slave who was bought free by the missionaries and serves as horseman. He was a moslem, captured by the Ashanti, sold to Akim-to the coast. Thankful (pp 2-3). Sharp funeral sermon at the burial of a mulatto who had sold a slave before his death in order to get money for fetish rites. Reaction of the mulattos (pp 5-6). Visit to Teshi (pp 6-9). Suicide of a lad who had got into debt and had been tormented with burning coals by his relatives (p 10). Farm and domestic animals of the convert Joseph at Teshi: a well - 50 yards from the coast - pigs, sheep, goats, hens, ducks behind a cactus hedge (p 11). Return and stay at Labadi: Children afraid of Laakpa, elders kind (p 12). Birth of his daughter (pp 13-14).

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