2743 20 77831 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 11.02.1876 Proper date: 11.02.1876 Description An account of the resource Partly printed in Heidenbote 1876 p33. The main material of interest in the printed passage is the number of candidates for baptism (21 men), the employment of 7 on the building, and the missionaries' determination that they should learn orderly and regular work so that they should not be dependent for their living on the sad activity that passes for trade. Their baptismal training includes being taught to read. In the passages not printed are the following points of interest: The letter concerns the plans for building the mission house in Begoro. It appears that the idea of a two-storey house has been evolved by Mohr himself on the grounds of the saving which will be involved if they do not have to create such large area of roof space and foundations as would be needed if the mission house was a single storey building; with an equal length of store houses etc. in a parallel single storey as he found was the case at Kibi. In Abetifi was built a 2 storey-house. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.28.IX..230 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.28 - Ghana 1876: D-01.28.IX. - Begoro Title A name given to the resource Mohr to Basel Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 03.06.1877 Proper date: 03.06.1877 Description An account of the resource Concerning his proposed marriage. He suggests his bride take some training in nursing and midwifery. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.29.XIV..244 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.29 - Ghana 1877: D-01.29.XIV. - Begoro Title A name given to the resource Mohr to Basel Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 30.06.1879 Proper date: 30.06.1879 Description An account of the resource Accepts a Committee approval of expenditure for the building of the catechist's house in Fankyeneko and says he is sure the Christians of the town will work for the building of the house as soon as they see something is being done. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.31.XIV..154 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.31 - Ghana 1879: D-01.31.XIV. - Begoro Title A name given to the resource Mohr to Basel Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 22.07.1879 Proper date: 22.07.1879 Description An account of the resource He has been pioneering a new route down the mountain from Begoro to Dome. He used the Okra valley and the passabove it to cut down the climbing and make the gradients easier. A man can be carried all the way up his new path in a hammock - this was not possible on the old way. Nevertheless the Begoro people are still using their old way. He asks for a retrospective grant to cover expenses incurred in exploration and cleaning of the new way. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.31.XIV..155 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.31 - Ghana 1879: D-01.31.XIV. - Begoro Title A name given to the resource Mohr to Basel Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 06.10.1879 Proper date: 06.10.1879 Description An account of the resource Discussing the occurrence of the deaths at Begoro and Abetifi remembers how Inspector Josenhans had said in one of his lectures in the Missionhouse in Basel that each new station cost at least one life. Explaining the delay in presenting final building accounts for Begoro he says that Glatzle died before many of the small finishing jobs had been done. With the new groups of Christians in the outstations to instruct and baptise Mohr has not had much time for this type of work, and there is no-one in Begoro to whom he can hand it over even under supervision. Glatzle had trained no Begoro carpenters - all had come from Accra. The Accra men had returned home several months ago. In Dwenase 6 people presented themselves for baptism, though three lapsed because they said they needed a catechist to help them stand firm against the heathen. (Mohr reports this as a widespread stand in the Dwenase-Abompe-Anka-ase and Osino areas, and says that a new catechists for each area would find results came quickly. There is a demand for schools inter al). Also young boys in Dwenase, who are pawns, are running away to come to school in Begoro, and have been sent back 3 or 4 times. One has indeed succeeded in getting permission to attend school by persistence, and the others are waiting for a suitable opportunity to try again. The Dwenase Christians regularly go to Sunday Services in Fankyeneko and also visit that place several times a week for instruction. But such moving about opens them to the taunts of the heathen - on the whole it is thought to be an evil (by the heathen) if they receive their instruction in another place. The chief of Dwenase has argued that they are avoiding their duties at townsmen thereby. An additional complication is the enmity which exists between some of these towns; for example in the past the grouping has been Begoro against Osino and Fankyeneko. This year it is Begoro and Fankyeneko against Osino. There has been blood shed over the question of the ownership of a certain stream disputed between Osino and Fankyeneko, and though in Accra the case has been judged in favour of Fankyeneko the Osino people are not at peace with this, and anyone from Osino going to Fankyeneko for baptismal instruction is liable to be beaten and fined on his return. It is to this letter that a map of the Begoro mission area is appended. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.31.XIV..156 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.31 - Ghana 1879: D-01.31.XIV. - Begoro Title A name given to the resource Mohr to Basel Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 29.10.1879 Proper date: 29.10.1879 Description An account of the resource Reports the purchase of land in Anyinam, and his plans for the building of a catechists' house. The latter are opposed by Buck, Eisenschmid, and Buhl partly on the grounds that no catechist is earmarked for Anyinam, and partly because Mohr has ambitious plans for a new type of house with an Odum board frame which seemed too costly and unnecessary. The land purchase (for 15 dollars) seems to have gone ahead easily, since the chief and elders made only two stipulations about it. Firstly they did not want a cactus-hedged plot belonging to Tano to be disturbed, and secondly they did not want the land to be too far from the town on the grounds that if there were no link between town and Christian settlement the town would be ruined. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.31.XIV..157 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.31 - Ghana 1879: D-01.31.XIV. - Begoro Title A name given to the resource Mohr to Basel Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 19.12.1879 Proper date: 19.12.1879 Description An account of the resource A further discussion of the Adu case. One girl was the sister of Catechist Ntow, the other was a Begoro girl only one month baptised. Adu is now in his home town. Kukurantumi, and sadly not penitent - in fact Mohr is having to keep a special watch on the Begoro girl whom he is attempting to induce to be his concubine. Adu had had a good reputation as an energetic man: marital palavers which Mohr had assisted him to settle had as Mohr thought been banished by the pregnancy of his wife, her childlessness having been the root cause of the trouble as he thought. The Begoro have taken a deep interest in the affair and while they have taunted the Christians ahout it, it has also made a considerable impression that the Christian community has acted so firmly. Recently the first man excluded from the Christian community in Begoro - Petro Sau - has been re-accepted. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.31.XIV..159 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.31 - Ghana 1879: D-01.31.XIV. - Begoro Title A name given to the resource Mohr to Basel Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 07.01.1880 Proper date: 07.01.1880 Description An account of the resource Reporting a visit to Fankyeneko in the new year. The people had been unhappy about the arrangements for building the catechist’s house – they had hoped to earn money from the mission in this connection to pay off debts, which the mission's allowance for building did not allow. Also the Harmattan period was the major period for clearing farms. Mohr agreed to pay the balance of the money left after contracts for boards, shingles etc. had been concluded as day-wages as long as it lasted. He also had problems getting people to pay the church tax, which had been announced to them in the last quarter of the preceding year. A threat to withhold communion from people who had not paid resulted in quick payment, however, There were8 baptisms at Fankyeneko in the new year, 6 were children - 5 sons, belonging to the family of Abraham Benefo. Benefo himself was also baptised - a man in his sixties, who owned a hill with huts on it, where his people could 'stay when at the farms - it is called Anoma. Catechist Obeng had rented a room in his house, one son and several nephews were already Christians, and he himself had expressed the wish a long time ago to become a Christian. However his wife had s severe attacks of madness, and it is only recently after she awoke one morning apparently healed after dreaming that someone had given her a certain medicine during the night that he decided to apply for baptism. The other adult was Petro Obako. He is a slave from hausa country who speaks such bad twi that neither Mohr nor the Christians can understand him easily. You see many slaves like him, especially in Kwahu. He had been with several other slaves in the service of the high priest of Atia Yaw, the much feared fetish of Nkwatia-Kawhu. 3 of his comrades were executed by the High Priest in Sept 1879, at which he ran away to Akim, He worked for an important man in Anyinam, who had a message from the priest that he should keep the slave and look after him. The slave fearis that this would mean that he would in the end be taken back to Nkwatia for sacrifice. So he ran away again at the end of October and came to the Begoro station. The Anyinam people were anxious about his loss - Mohr went back on the road to Begoro with an escort of men whose job it was to seek out the refugee and. recapture him. In fact he was on the Begoro station when Mohr got there; he took him on as a day labourer, and has now baptised him. Mohr was astounded to see him in Begoro - the whole countryside had been looking for him and he had never been that way before. He also notes that the Akims and Akwapims call such people 'dogs’ and 'thieves' – though that kind of abuse is used between the twi tribes too. He has heard a Larteh workman at Begoro say that while the Akwapims were Europeans now, (abrofo) the Akims were still Africans. He adds concerning Petro Obako that he was sold into slavery from his people owing to war, and worked for master in Fankyeneko from about 20 years ago. After 10 years his master died. With difficulty he has learned parts of the catechism. Previously when Mohr asked him about his beliefs it is true that he had no faith in fetishes, but his main religious act was to pray each morning 'Dear Lord, look on me, and protect met and let no debts or arguments hurt me’. And occasionally he would sacrifice a chicken. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.32.XIV..151 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.32 - Ghana 1880: D-01.32.XIV. - Begoro Title A name given to the resource Mohr to Basel Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 26.10.1880 Proper date: 26.10.1880 Description An account of the resource The first part of the report is taken up with complaints about the length of time which catechists Obeng and Sakyi have asked for their leave, and the fact that they have both overstayed their leave by a considerable length of time. Sakyi appears to be a close friend of members of the Akim royal family. A more extended account is given of Sakyi’s work. The children of the community, who are the ones now coming to school, are all small, and so a four-day school week has been started, the object of the whole thing being to give them a liking for school rather than to teach them a great deal. In this connection Sakyi has been specifically ordered not to beat the children. Teacher Adu sinned greatly in this respect, and this helps to account for the unpopularity of the Begoro school. He is also supposed to hold classes for writing and reading for the adult Christians on Monday afternoons and Wednesday mornings. And there is some form of evening activity every day. Morning prayers are not for the whole community in the chapel - experience teaches that it is no use relying on housefathers to conduct morning prayers for their families reliably. The bulk of the second part of the report is taken up with a discussion of the Christian villages. Mohr is all in favour of them. All but of the adult Christians are now living on the station, .and the elders have themselves suggested that baptismal candidates should during their instruction be asked to come onto the station and start building their houses. The effort to bring about the gathering of the Christians on the station has been severe, however - Mohr talks of warnings and threats being needed. Other forces bringing this situation about were annoyances suffered by the Christians at the hands of the heathen, and the death of Benjamin Nso. He was resident off the station, and then became subject to discipline because he went to the coast with the objective of trading in spirits. After his exclusion he fell ill, appealed to be allowed to take Holy Communion (this was allowed) and wanted to be taken onto the station. Mohr's own mind can the subject has been strengthened by his conversation with Nathaniel Amfo, recently baptised in Begoro, his house-boy. He is an orphan, and has been of considerable help to Mohr in his learning of the language, not simply because he can interpret, but also because he can and will explain things. Mohr complains that the average catechist keeps thing hidden from the missionaries, partly out of false shame, partly out of a feeling that it is not necessary for a missionary to know such things. But it is clear from his conversation with Amfo that the corruption in the traditional culture is integral, and therefore that there must be separate Christian villages, not just separate quarters within the towns. Amfo, who was from fetish priests family, cut off all his links with his relatives other than one half-sister who had cared for him. (Mohr became convinced of his passage from death to life when during an illness he had great desire to hear the Bible read, and expressed himself as eager for death). Christians should be in separate villages - thus their children can be brought up properly. He sees very little hope in the Akwapim situation where even the catechists live in the heathen town. Even on the Begoro station recently a 10 year old daughter of one of the Christians was found playing at sexual intercourse with a little boy - there is in fact a form of marriage-play with the sexual concommitents. Therefore people need to be in separate villages, and missionaries and catechists do not need to mince words in their ethical teachings and admonitions. His final comment is that in Begoro unmarried (men) Christians have a hard time: Girls will not marry Christians. This is partly because of the number of female fetish cult officials and their influence, and partly because of rumours that Christian men will prove infertile. Antipolygamy teachings are no enticement. Unfortunately they have only had one adult unmarried Christian girl on the station, and she 'fell' with teacher Adu. She is really still convinced of the truth of the gospel, but during an illness was to state that she had returned to the service of the fetish. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.32.XIV..155 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.32 - Ghana 1880: D-01.32.XIV. - Begoro Title A name given to the resource Mohr to Basel Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: October 1880 Proper date: October 1880 Description An account of the resource Laments the frequently changing personnel of the station - Munz for Huppenbauer, Sakyi for Ntow and Okanta, but includes a passage on Sakyi. Finding himself in that thickly clouded land, lying outside the protectorate where slavery and pawning were still allowed, where the people are industrious in craft and farming, was too much of a temptation for his character. He was the first man in Kwahu - other than the missionaries - who knew how to read, and he soon discovered how to make himself indispensable to the men of influence. Also he got involved with trade, especially in monkey skins - he used to 'settle' everything on his preaching journeys out of the missionaries’ sight. He became formally recognised as agent for merchants in Amedeka and on the coast, looking after consignments despatched to Salaga. But in these circumstances his preaching was scattered with the wind, because how could people accept him as the messenger of peace when they had just been settling his palavers, and when he had been involved in all the crooked methods that people use here in collecting debts of heathens they knew? He is typical of many of the indigenous helpers in the mission who use specious arguments to quieten their consciences when in fact their main motivations are a search for comfort and more money. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.32.XIV..156 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.32 - Ghana 1880: D-01.32.XIV. - Begoro Title A name given to the resource Mohr to Basel Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 15.02.1883 Proper date: 15.02.1883 Description An account of the resource Announcing the death of Brother Krauss 31 hours after the onset of an attack of yellow fever. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.37.V..78 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.37 - Ghana 1883: D-01.37.V. - Begoro Title A name given to the resource Mohr to Basel Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 28.10.1896 Proper date: 28.10.1896 Description An account of the resource Confirms that he spent this time in Adele in bed. Having read some of David Asante's reports on the area he considers that the knowledge of Twi must have reduced considerably in the intervening decade. There was an Asante ‘Governor’ (Statthalter) in Dadease in Atwati. In fact in the whole area of the Anum missionary district, except for Akwamu on both sides of the Volta and a few villages in Buem, the languages most used by far are Guan and Ewe - so much so that young missionaries in the area have no chance to practice speaking pure Twi. To the points raised against teaching German in Letter No. 178 above, he adds - in a rather hostile tone – the point that he does not see why the Basel Mission should rush to teach German when the German Government is doing so little even for the school in Lome. Since, even in the Anum district, so many pupils really need to learn English, why do they not simply wait till the Bremen mission has German-speaking teachers, and then employ some of those? In any case it should be the first duty of the Regime to run schools if it needs certain types of employees. 'To use missionary money for this would be to use it for what it was not intended by the donors. We want to bring the 'Word' to the people, and we simply cannot do that in German, only in the vernacular, and in this case, with these many small tribal groups, that means in Twi which in this situation is far easier to teach them than German'. He repeats arguments for sending Volta region pupils to a middle school in Abetifi or Begoro because that Twi is more current in the Volta region than Akwapim Twi). Another argument which he advances here against a Volta region middle school is that he calculates that they only need 24 local assistants for the whole area up to Adele (it is, he remarks, after all only a narrow strip of land) and a number like that hardly justifies a whole middle school. An evangelist's school perhaps. This letter is marked 'Private' by Mohr - perhaps because of its comments on the teaching of German. It seems so from the fact that he mentions its being private in the same paragraph at the end as a final comment about German-language teaching - and in blue pencil a remark by a Basel recipient as ‘very much to be heeded'. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.65.VIII..177 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.65 - Ghana 1896: D-01.65.VIII. - Anum Title A name given to the resource Mohr to Basel Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 28.05.1886 Proper date: 28.05.1886 Description An account of the resource He gives a definition of the geographical extent of the 5 Akim pastorates. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.45.IV..53 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.45 - Ghana 1886: D-01.45.IV. - Begoro Title A name given to the resource Mohr to Basel Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 03.02.1887 Proper date: 03.02.1887 Description An account of the resource The letter is marked private. Reports Ata’s death in the find of consumption. His follower had immediately taken him off on the direct way to Kibi to be buried at Banso. Mohr had told the Governor that there was an outstation close by the burial ground which needed protection, but 'the old gentleman' said that he had no officers to spare. However, he asked Mr Cleland to send one of his people to Kibi to protect the Mission property there against damage. At the beginning of January the Asuums had been fined £50 for contempt of court - they had failed to answer charges against them in the Court in Accra. The Governor would have preferred the whole thing to lie in abeyance, but the missionaries could not allow this to happen. He reports a general reaction among the local agents of sending wives back to Akropong, and themselves stopping work until the troubles have ended. Mohr reckons that as Akwapims and strangers nothing would-have happened to them anyway. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.47.IV..90 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.47 - Ghana 1887: D-01.47.IV. - Begoro Title A name given to the resource Mohr to Basel Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 02.05.1887 Proper date: 02.05.1887 Description An account of the resource The letter is marked private. Being called to the coast on 27th April, he had considered it necessary to take his wife to Aburi although her confinement was due on 9th May, but they had got to Aburi in 3 days, without any rain, and with no carrier slipping in the mod to cause an upset. In the Police—Court process in Accra the mission is represented by Mr Bannerman, and the Okyhenhene's side by Mr Moss. Most of the letter is taken up with protest against a letter written by the departed Governor. Points made: 1. He has never been in conflict before in his l2 years of service with the mission in Akim. As missionary in Begoro he had seen everything from a distance and had nothing to do with earlier difficulties with Ata. The difficulties with Ata in December 1886 were only his second time of having dealings with him. In May 1886, the first occasion for having dealings with him, he had invited Mohr to eat with him, and sent him food for 10 days. He had asked him to measure his stone house, and to make plans and proposals as to its extension. Everyone knew Mohr was his 'friend' — in his many letters to him Ata had called him "M'adamfo pa“. 2. When Ata lay dying, he is said to have asked to be baptised. He confessed his sins and asked this urgently, his sister Ohyerewa refused (at first) and then offered to find a Wesleyan, but he asked for a 'German' missionary because he knew them,- and knew too that their services were the right ones. They knew how to put him off, however, and he died before his wish mas acted on. Mohr thinks this must be true - if it were not then the heathen would not any tell this story - an important Akim man who is now a catechumen also told Mohr the same tale. 3. Mohr also protests that he never accused Ata, only asked for protection. The legal relationship was that Ata was the accuser of Bosompem. It was the Governor who called Ata to Accra, and the Governor who would not begin proceedings till M. was in Accra. The Governor asserts that the heathen accuse Mohr of being responsible for Ata's death, but no-one knows who has said this and when. 4. Mohr points out that no Christian has levelled charge against Ata since his return from prison. Boakye's charges were made against the Asuum people. Charges against Ata have been made by heathens — Mohr cites one of an Abomoso man who swore the king's oath was then imprisoned, fined, and an attempt made to force him to drink the blood of three sheep in one sitting who appealed to Government. Comparing his case with Asante's Mohr points out that there had been many points of conflict between Ata fin and Asante. He particularly protests against the idea of being transferred to Anum, and faced with still more building - it is only a year since Dr. Fisch despaired of his recovery from yellow fever,- and in any case he badly wants a chance to devote himself to study and preaching. Mohr's recipe for a settlement is Government backing in restoring the Kibi, Apapam, Tete and Apedwa communities to their former places, and when that has happened he feels sure that no-one except a few people in Ata's immediate family will hold anything against him. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.47.IV..75 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.47 - Ghana 1887: D-01.47.IV. - Begoro Title A name given to the resource Mohr to Basel Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 05.06.1887 Proper date: 05.06.1887 Description An account of the resource Complains about the dealy involved in settling the matter in Akim. Lethbridge has no troops now, and this gives the Akim chiefs room for manoeuvre. The £500 has been collected. A ‘Bond of Peace' is being prepared. Turton (Colonial Secretary) is unfortunately hostile to the mission. He told Mohr that Lethbridge had been presented with a list of conditions on which the Christians would be allowed back into Akim. No fishing in certain streams, no planting certain types of yam, no working on certain week-days. There are also complaints about Christians not taking their cases before village chiefs. Mohr is keen on things being arranged, otherwise the crucial aspect of the Ata problem will recur, people not knowing how far they could go. Administrator White has promised to get the Christians back as quickly as possible, but having had such trouble collecting the £500 fine he is not disposed to collect damages for the Christians, even for the £126 extorted in Kibi. Mohr offered to abstain from legal processes if this sum could be covered, but White said he had nothing to do with the courts. Mohr complains that the Christians are being pushed towards the courts though they do not know who actually stole their possessions in most cases, while much of the damage would have been avoided if only Governor Griffith had taken Mohr's advice to send a man with the funeral procession into Akim. Mohr talked to White about his own position. A letter accusing him of various misdeeds had in fact turned out to be identical to one found by Mohr, which had been written by Lethbridge's interpreter. Mohr points out that this man, now calling himself Newman, is no less than the long-ago dismissed Basel Mission. Akwapim employee, Obuobisa. He felt that he had probably been bribed by the Kibi people to intrigue against him. White agreed that his long stay in Begoro had not given rise to charges, and a letter had arrived from Lethbridge saying that the Kibi people had nothing against him really. In the Kibi community there are some of the opinion that if they do not receive compensation they should find some easy and profitable place to settle down. Mohr is evidently very pleased with Bosompem's attitudes. He has said that the community belongs to Akim and should return there. He has also said not a word about court cases to revenge himself on the people who caused him all his trouble. Mohr had been making investigations as to how people lapsed during the persecution. In many villages people went no further than that Christians should move back to live with their heathen relatives. Others had to swear that they would no longer live on mission land. Others to swear that they would have nothing to do with the 'school people'. So far he has uncovered no requirement to express hatred of or curse the name of Jesus. In some places people were told to call the fetish. This they did with the mental footnote that they did not believe the fetish existed, that Jesus knew that they thought in this way, and that He knew that they loved him. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.47.IV..77 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.47 - Ghana 1887: D-01.47.IV. - Begoro Title A name given to the resource Mohr to Basel Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 10.08.1887 Proper date: 10.08.1887 Description An account of the resource Governor Griffith's letter suggesting Mohr should be posted away from Akim had arrived in the hands of the Mission the day after he sailed away. And this was after Mohr had been in Osu for three weeks; and could have answered the allegations had they been made. Mohr then reviews the evidence etc. against him. The main support for Griffith's 1etter was the letter which Mohr had sent to Ata's secretary Kwaku Nyako (otherwise Hudson), and their ex—teacher Oforidee. They believed that Bosompem really was in danger of his life, also that they could not be sure that the messenger sent from Apapa wmould get through, and this was one way of alerting the Akropong brethren to the dangers of the situation. Rottmann the cashier in Christiansborg had been especially puzzled as to why they had paid the money out which they did pay out in Kibi (Mohr points out in passing that this letter is evidence that £500 and not £3,500 was the losses stated at the time from the alleged theft. The latter figure was what was being put forward in the Accra court proceedings.) Even had the £500 been paid and lost. One man's life was worth far more than the money. Mohr reckons the Fante involved in the affair had told the others in prison that he was receiving £4 and l/- per day for his part in the affair, no money had been stolen. Commenting once more on the letter sent to Oforidee and Nyako, Mohr points out that Oforidee had worked previously under his supervision. Moreover they work with the Okyenhene's linguist Agyeman and Ata's brother-in-law Odo of Tumfa, were the people to whom the cash collected by the missionaries was actually given over for safe-keeping. Mohr had also warned Oforidee frequently to hold the king back from his illegal acts, while in fact they were both privy to the secret plan. Then the Okyenhene died, the Governor allowed the heathen party to return to Akim and indeed gave them £50 for the custom, while they spoke threats to the Christians and indeed in the Nsawam district beat up a number of Christians whom they met with the result that one of them died later. Mohr therefore sent this letter with the objective of saving the £126 pounds and including the point that their original 'devilish plan' as known to the missionaries. He argues that the tone of the letter should not have surprised anyone who among the mission's friends did not believe that Ata's death was a judgement? One problem seeds to have been that the letter include the phrase that a copy would be given to the Governor. This was not done, and Turton had viewed this point in its worst light. Mohr however explains that he had been busy with a memo which Rottmann had asked him to send to the Governor, and having finished this was immediately overtaken with by the news of the destruction in Kibi etc. and the holding of a Council which decided Mohr should return to Akim with a military escort. The accusation had also been made that the letter had contributed to the anger and was thus partly responsible for the destruction. Unfortunately the Kukurantumi catechist could not remember whether it had reached Kibi on the 12th or 13th February. Neverhteless an Apapam Christian had seen pieces of the Kibi mission-house furniture in Apapam on February 5th and Mohr was able to report a series of misdeeds on February 5th, so that it was immaterial whether the letter had arrived on the 11th or l3th. In fact the procession with Ata's corpse had arrive in Kibi on February 4th. Mohr also goes through the events from the Governor's side. His version of what happened after Ata's death repeats other earlier material except that about Cleland's representatives (he calls them 'chiefs'): 'I have learned that they started in Nsawam last Wednesday the 9th, and will probably reach Kibi this evening the llth. Up to the day of the death of the Okyenhene Christians and heathen from Akim had been given subsistence. This ceased on the day of the death, but while the heathen were given £50 the Christians were simply told (through Mohr) to remain in Osu. Mohr also quotes from a memo written on 9th February that a chief called Atshery(?) boasted that they had been given a letter by the Governor in which it was forbidden for any Christian to return to Akim to preach in any Akin town, while in Nsawam Okyerewa swore an oath on chief Obeng that he should kill the Christians in the town - the Governor had given permission for this. He complains that after the hearing of early May no proceedings had been taken for false witness against witnesses on the Okyenhene's side who had been shown to be lying, while the costs of the action had been laid on the Christians. This even though the Attorney General was friendly disposed to them. Turton he identifies as their chief adversary – a Catholic. He was the chief cause of Boakye's case against the Asuum people being held up, and had caused Boakye to be known as a 'bad fellow' - a phrase used of him by Griffiths in an interviwm with Rottmann and Mohr. Mohr defends himself vigorously from the suggestion that the soldiers are being kept in Begoro (where they have commenced to trade) for the sake of his safety. In April he journeyed without escort to Aburi. The comparison which showed that Obuobisa had written the Kibi letter about Mohr was not a comparison of texts, but a comparison of handwritings. In discussing this point Mohr writes that he had explained to Lethbridge that (who is named as the officer who had said he would have thrown the Christians out of Akim if he had been king) that the missionaries saw the-struggle as one between heathenism and Christianity which now promises to become a power – but he had derided this view. He reviews the history of the conflict once more, especially in the light of the accusation by the Governor that he had acted in such a way as ‘had materially affected the moral influence which a Christian missionary should exercise', pointing out that they were taken back to Kibi by force and that the aggression was all on the side of the Okyenhene. The guarantee of responsibility signed by the chiefs who called Mohr back from Apedwa was required by Ata on 22 December and Mohr handed it over, but only after secretly making a copy and having it witnessed by a number of the Christians. One point he present in evidence of the cordiality of relations between himself and Ata in May 1886 is the fact that Ata had allowed him to photograph himself, his mother, his sister, and two of his wives. He defends himself against the saying, common among the missionaries even, that he was Ata's chief accuser - he had after all gone to Begoro rather that the coast deliberately in order to avoid this appearance, and went to the coast in early January only after pressure from the Governor per Missionary Rottmann. Mohr's subscript dated 15 August reports that Lethbridge had been instructed to go to Kibi and force four chiefs to sign the bond of peace - those of Abomosu, Osenase, Wankyi and Akyease. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.47.IV.,79 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.47 - Ghana 1887: D-01.47.IV. - Begoro Title A name given to the resource Mohr to Basel Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 23.08.1887 Proper date: 23.08.1887 Description An account of the resource Lists the four chiefs who are being forced to sign the bond of peace, but omits Osenase and adds instead Okyereso. Obomosu and Akyease have signified that they will not meet Lethbridge in Kibi for this purpose. Apparently the idea at this stage was for £100 of the £500 collected to be given to the heathen, the rest to the Christians. Mohr criticised the idea of returning money to the heathen, and also pointed out that the £500 had been collected in 30/- units from all the heathen irrespective of how much damage they had done - Okyerewa, for example was getting off scot free. And if £100 was returned, instead of the people who had stolen property and then returned it getting the money, it would simply be divided among the chiefs. Over the return of the Christians Mohr has suggested to them that they refuse until the £126 extorted in the December Days had been returned. A case has come before the court in Accra in which a servant of Ata's, Yam Bekye, who had been accused of the theft, tried to get £64 back from Apeaning, one of the Okyenhene's treasurers. The judge had argued that Apeaning was not personally responsible, however, and asked Bekye to bring the claim up once a successor to Ate had been chosen. Mohr had estimated the damage to mission property in Kibi, Tete Apedwa, Asunafo and Abosmsu as £355=3=0. The largest items being the Kibi library valued at £55, and the Mission house furniture at £122= 9=0. The Kibi mission house had glass windows. Community property in Kibi - damage estimated at £92=l2=0 (This includes a computation of 8/- loss personal property in the Kibi school per boy), losses suffered by mission employees at £120=1l=0 (the largest using £30 claim by Ofori, the average being £11,"claimed by Gyima and Ch. Owusu, Okyere, Gyamera, and Botwe). Mohr agrees that the losses can probably be pared down to £450 when returned property etc. is taken into account. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.47.IV..82 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.47 - Ghana 1887: D-01.47.IV. - Begoro Title A name given to the resource Mohr to Basel Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 27.07.1847 Proper date: 27.07.1847 Description An account of the resource About his work: Difficulties with Mullings, the repair of the sawing machine not yet finished, trail at brick burning, watch repairing, building of new houses, teaching the masons to make a proper stone wall, dispute with Widmann on how to build. Garden made for vegetables and flowers admired by the Africans, but not imitated, plan to plant cotton and coffee. Repairing new testaments and schoolbooks, request to send bookbinder's tools. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource 4 pages Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.02.(1847).I.,10 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.02 - Ghana 1842-1848: D-01.02.(1847) - Akropong and Christiansborg: D-01.02.(1847).I. - Akropong Title A name given to the resource Mohr to Basel Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 01.08.1847 Proper date: 01.08.1847 Description An account of the resource Request to be sent a bride, reason why. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource 2 pages Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.02.(1847).I.,11 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.02 - Ghana 1842-1848: D-01.02.(1847) - Akropong and Christiansborg: D-01.02.(1847).I. - Akropong Title A name given to the resource Mohr to Basel