302 20 77964 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: August 1854 Proper date: August 1854 Description An account of the resource In the introductory paragraph he writes that although he had had it in mind to write about the culture, he had not thought that it was a very important matter until recently when he has had to do with the recently baptised people at Damfa. Now he has seen that to the development of the community agriculture is central. He reports that the people are back on the farming villages and very busy. The main part of the report is a detailed account of the Danish road to Sesami, along which he says plantation produce was carried by asses, horses, and oxen. Little is left of the enterprise but the straight line of the road, and a half rotted wagon still standing just outside the Fort. From Osu the road lands up onto a small hill called Friedrichsburg, and on each side are small fields of maize, stockyams, groundnuth and earth beans. They are hedged with cactus to protect them from cattle. On the hill are two houses built by the Danes. Before the house were built there were extensive Danish gardens up here, but these were reduced and the houses built once the produce was being brought from inland by draught animals. The English government has neglected house and gardens. The road to Legon is rather monotonous, leading through wide valleys and over small hills – here and there are unfenced fields with crops, with a watchmans hut in each. Nearer Legon the vegetation is higher, and the trees more sturdy partly because it rains more, bit more because this far from Accra the trees are not exploited for firewood (Though the mission sends out here for firewood). A quarter of an hour before Legon is the first significant settlement – Dokutso, somewhat on the right of the course of the road. Legon itself lies somewhat to the left of the road in a valley. Yams and corn are planted here successfully, because of the greater rain and the better soil. On the east side of Legon, and also to the right of the road there is a fairly high hill on whoch grow only low grass and a frew trees. If you go up there after living in Osu or Abokobi, it is just like going up the Feldberg from Basel. You breathe so easily, and there is such a pleasant breeze, that one’s the thoughts turn straight away to setting up a small house here. A Danish official had had this idea – he was called here Herr Schönning, and Brother Dieterle had made the drawings, but Schönning was recalled and the idea lapsed. From Legon the road went to Sasami - the Danish government-plantation, where the government house welcomed you with its white walls (he describes a house set up on the lines of a modern rest-house, to which one could go and buy food). This used as the Basel Mission resting-place on the journey to Akwapim before Abokobi was bought. It had a covered gallery from which one could admire the government coffee, orange, lemon, plantations and the bamboos. The plantation was the pride of-the Danes and of 'the local people who worked on it, but when Stanger visited it recently it was in ruins, and the plantation had reverted to bush. Nowadays when you travel from Legon to Ahokobi you are constantly meeting people, because this is the great road of commerce from Akin and Akropong to the sea, uncounted loads of farm products going south, esp. palm oil, and a new commodity this year, called oke in the vernacular, and Firnis (varnish) by the Europeans. This is also a very vigorous farming area, although to the passer-by it would look more like a wood, since areas which have been farmed go back to woodland in a very few years. In Abokobi he found farming activities going forward – land was being cleared of trees and there was a good crop of limes. Wood was being burnt just because it was in the way. Stanger suggests that a non-missionary European, though a Christian, should be encouraged to come out to run a business based on wagon-transportation of produce etc from the farms to the coastal towns. He reports the Christians in Abokobi and Damfa are very willing to learn about farming, but have to be shown how to do everything out of the ordinary like planting coffee or tobacco. (The bulk of this report is published in HEIDENBOTE pp.15-17, 1855.) Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.05.II..18 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-01.05 - Ghana 1854: D-01.05.II. - Christiansborg Title A name given to the resource Stanger's Report for the Second Quarter of 1854 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: 03.01.1854 Proper date: 03.01.1854 Description An account of the resource News of Süss - he has been very ill with fever, and the rumour among the local population is that when he was unconscious he was taken to the fetish, but this is only a rumour. He had cured his condition by taking quinine and an extract of tobacco.-His followers have been sent away, and so he is cooking for himself. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.05.III..1 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-01.05 - Ghana 1854: D-01.05.III. - Akropong Title A name given to the resource Widmann 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: 09.01.1854 Proper date: 09.01.1854 Description An account of the resource The Gyadam chief is pleased-that he is going to remain in Gyadam despite, his illnesses. The bulk of the letter is justification for his decision to come to Gyadam and stay there – little is revealed about Gyadam itself. Süss has been chiefly frustrated by the controls which the Basel Committee feel constrain -its policies because of lack of money. He wants to live simply, working with his hands, preaching, and visiting the families in their houses to talk to them about the Kingdom of God. He has plans to put up a small barn and keep milking cows, and hopes to have a school house and a reasonable living house for himself. It is not clear how he has supported himself in the three months which he has already spent in Gyadam. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.05.III..3 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-01.05 - Ghana 1854: D-01.05.III. - Akropong Title A name given to the resource Süss 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: 20.01.1854 Proper date: 20.01.1854 Description An account of the resource The two sons of the King of Akim, Gyeki and Asirife, attend lectures in the institute, thought they are really enrolled in the school. They are also receiving an hours instruction in English since their father lays such store by this. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.05.III..4 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-01.05 - Ghana 1854: D-01.05.III. - Akropong Title A name given to the resource Half-year Report from Dieterle and Christaller concerning the Catechist Institute in Akropong 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: 03.11.1854 Proper date: 03.11.1854 Description An account of the resource A short letter, inter al about Akim, but refering to a Station Conference- protocol of 9 March which includes, a discussion which culminated in Mader and Dieterle going to Gyadam in an effort to get Süss to come back to Akropong (v. No. III.13, pp 5-7). In February and March Cruikshiank visited Akropong, Kibi, and Gyadam, over the political crisis in the colony. Süss seems to have tried to avoid meeting him by going on a journey to Kwahu, from which he was brought back by the Gyadam people. Quinine is doing him no good, and he is trying to cure himself with tobacco juice. Cruikshank's comment was 'He seems to be in morbid state of mind’. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.05.III..8 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-01.05 - Ghana 1854: D-01.05.III. - Akropong Title A name given to the resource Widmann 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: 28.03.1854 Proper date: 28.03.1854 Description An account of the resource Dieterle and Mader report on their visit to Süss. Their visit was taken on both sides as an indication that nothing was amiss between the missionaries personally. However, Süss feels himself committed to Gyadam, and is content to let the illnesses take their course. Nevertheless he is able to leave his bed only occasionall and has been able to do scarcely anything since his arrival in Gyadam. Nothing is said about how he had been supported since his arrival, nor what the local attitudes to him were. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.05.III..9 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-01.05 - Ghana 1854: D-01.05.III. - Akropong Title A name given to the resource Akropong Station Conference Protocoll 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: 21.04.1854 Proper date: 21.04.1854 Description An account of the resource A rather more detailed description than previously of the Akropong villages on the road into Akim. Compared with the previous report (23 Mar 1852) there is lest detail about the Akim part of the journey. Of the list of settlements before Kukurantumi is reached which is provided in that report, Koforidua is mentioned here, as-a hunting village, and Panto is now said to be an Akim farming village consisting of three huts. Kukurantumi he mentions as having two large clumps of bamboo at each end of the village which could each provide shade for an assembly of 500-800 men. This is an indication that like many Akim towns Kukurantumi is divided into two parts. The fetish in Kukurantumi had forbidden the fetching of water, which caused some difficulty. This was a prohibition on the people as a whole. The missionaries Knaben (this presumably means their servants not the students who were with them) took the trouble to fetch water themselves. From Kukurantumi the village names are given - Ati, Tafo, Osem, Fankyeneko, then 4 hours through the bush to the Birim, which they crossed on a tree trunk which had fallen across the river. Little is said about Gyadam, the results of the conversations with-Süss having already been communicated. Good numbers of people attended morning prayers in the courtyard-of the house where Mader and Dieterle lodged, and evening prayers were said in the Chief's house. (Dieterle preached on Ps, 94v9, the pupils sang hymns.) Mader comments that Gyadam a nice place. On the way home they passed through Kibi, where the King prepared a ceremonial welcome for them - drummers at the entrance to the town and a half hour spent exchanging greetings (The two Akim ‘princes’ were part of the missionaries’ party). They stayed two days in Kibi, though little is said about what they spent their time doing – altough Mader comments that the king is great friend of their visits being exchanged both when they are in Kibi, and when he is journeying through Akropong or in Osu. The missionaries’ pupils were requested to sing for him. Prayers were attended by townspeople, and on the second day they held a service in the King’s house (Mader’s text, was I Cor. c8v9). They tried to recruit some children for upbringing, but while the King's brother was willing to send one, another man was not. The villages on the route back are given once more as Oponto, Tete, Boate; at Kukurantumi, where they spent the night again there were 40 people present when Mader preached in the evening, but they were not sympathetic (Mader comments that at the end they wanted money). Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.05.III..16 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-01.05 - Ghana 1854: D-01.05.III. - Akropong Title A name given to the resource Mader's Report about his Journey to Süss with Dieterle 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: 07.06.1854 Date late: 15.06.1854 Proper date: 07.06.1854-15.06.1854 Description An account of the resource By the end of the letter Süss has returned to Akropong, and is offering to put himself back under the direction of the Basel Committee and the General Conference on the Gold Coast, though he proposes that Clerk should accompany him back to Gyadam as a condition of this. The first page of the letter, however, is an assessment of the situation before this development, in which he argues that Agyemang of Gyadam is a crafty man, and a drunkard, who is friendly to Süss’ face, but is laughing at him behind his back. Much better locations for a new station would be Kibi or Aburi: note how Atta from Kibi has actually sent two sons to school, whereas while Agyemang promised this, none have actually done. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.05.III..18 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-01.05 - Ghana 1854: D-01.05.III. - Akropong Title A name given to the resource Widmann 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: 08.06.1854 Proper date: 08.06.1854 Description An account of the resource Again little about the actual situation in Gyadam, his reception etc. He describes the rumour that he was taken unconscious to the fetich as a great heathen lie. He does say however, that the Gyadam chief was concerned about his leaving and appealed to him to return to teach his people. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.05.III..19 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-01.05 - Ghana 1854: D-01.05.III. - Akropong Title A name given to the resource Süss 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: 13.06.1854 Date late: 16.06.1854 Proper date: 13.06.1854-16.06.1854 Description An account of the resource Section 1 of the conference is a discussion leading to the fixing of a scale of wages for BM catechists and teachers, with a differential allowing for the higher cost of living on the coast. Section II is concerned with Süss and Gyadam. Little is said about this other than in connection with mission policy, except that when the conference discusses the Basel Committee’s suggestion that Alexander Clerk should be posted to Gyadam work with Süss, and particularly Clerk's wishing the appointment to be for two or three years only. Süss then says he believes that Clerk's wife is the cause of this suggestion and that she is afraid of meeting no Accra people in Gyadam. In fact, says Süss, there are more Accra people in Gyadam than in Akropong. There is general agreement, however, that' it is a waste of time sending Clerk to Gyadam for only three years, view of the length of time it takes to learn the customs etc It also appears that Süss has been living in a house which he has rented (presumably from the King, since the rest of the paragraph is about purchasing land from the king for the mission station) for nine Thalers per year. The only substantial information emerges as to Süss’ relations with the Gyadam people is that he says that most evenings in the last two months he has held a singing hour, with prayers following. The objectives was to add to the possibilities when he held Sunday services, and also to communicate to the younger people in the village, and through them with their. families. However he found he was teaching songs to older people as well, and his room became too small for the event (Though when Mader and Dieterle visited him in March they slept in another house, and the most obvious reason for that which nothing in any of the descriptions so far offered contradicts, is that Süss’ house was too small for the three of them - see Mader’s report No. III.17). Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.05.III..20 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-01.05 - Ghana 1854: D-01.05.III. - Akropong Title A name given to the resource Protocol of a General Conference at Osu 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: 30.06.1854 Proper date: 30.06.1854 Description An account of the resource In a discussion of certain aspects of twi (bottom of the first page) Christaller takes an example from the village of Amono, 3 1/2 hours from Akropong. Noe, a future king of Osu has received from Christaller's old friend and informant Kofi Akotia a hat made of- crocodile skin with a tiger's tail, eagle's feathers, golden ramshorns, silver eyes. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.05.III..23 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-01.05 - Ghana 1854: D-01.05.III. - Akropong Title A name given to the resource Christaller's Quarterly Report 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: 25.10.1854 Proper date: 25.10.1854 Description An account of the resource Süss has his own house on his own farm. His regular Sunday preaching is well attended, though he does not count how many people are there. In the daytime he visits the chief and elders - at night he goes to the town to enter into conversation with the inhabitants. The disputations are quick moving and warm, often there are by-standers from some other town or state, and he has heard them to say to each other that white man is right, and the priests are swindlers. The elders are the people who guide opinion during the debates. ‘You speak the truth, and we are all terribly afraid of death’. When he tells them that God has sent his son as a Lord and Messiah who has seized the weapons of the king of fears, and taken his life, and brought evil ways out into the light, they say ‘We can well believe that’. Persistent interrupts are usually quietened by their brothers. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.05.III..30 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-01.05 - Ghana 1854: D-01.05.III. - Akropong Title A name given to the resource Süss 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: 30.09.1854 Proper date: 30.09.1854 Description An account of the resource From a discussion with Süss about the relationship between the Gyadam and Asante dialects, reports that Süss reckoned the Gyadam people had come out of Asante about- 25 years before. Christaller has also been going through the history and other information which David Dieterle (Asante) has had fromthe Larteh fetish and written down. It’s a long report including information the on the history and customs of Mamfe and arguments about the recent bombardment of the Eastern Ga towns. One point on the latter is, that people could not see why the English should want a head 'tax from them if they were to serve them - after all the Asante had been content with a number of men each year and a certain measure of salt. The dialectic goes on with Christaller arguing that the English deserve considerations on several grounds, e.g. having stopped the slave trade, and the people arguing the missionaries are connected with the English government. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.05.III..33 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-01.05 - Ghana 1854: D-01.05.III. - Akropong Title A name given to the resource Christaller's Quarterly Report 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: 27.11.1854 Proper date: 27.11.1854 Description An account of the resource He has successfully farmed tobacco, and is smoking it. But has been badly ill again and expects to remain unhealthy till he has built a stone house. Sunday, service is now held in his house, on the streets of the town it is rather disturbed. He wants a bell to call people to it. Nevertheless services are being attended by high and low. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.05.III..37 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-01.05 - Ghana 1854: D-01.05.III. - Akropong Title A name given to the resource Süss 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: 01.02.1855 Proper date: 01.02.1855 Description An account of the resource Includes a list of the new catechumens during the year, with short biographies of most. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.05.III..41 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-01.05 - Ghana 1854: D-01.05.III. - Akropong Title A name given to the resource Mader's Yearly Report for the Akropong Station 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: 20.02.1855 Proper date: 20.02.1855 Description An account of the resource The king has presented him the land for the mission station, though to avoid future difficulties, Süss gave the king a present at the conclusion of the transaction. The king has in the past given him food in order to help him remain in Gyadam. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.06.IV..42 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-01.06 - Ghana 1855: D-01.06.IV. - Akropong Title A name given to the resource Süss 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: 27.05.1855 Proper date: 27.05.1855 Description An account of the resource The Gyadam people will not send their children to school unless Süss gives them clothes. But the Sunday services are well attended. He offers the first appreciation of the political situation in Gyadam – they are troubled from without by the threat of Asante and the Abuakwa people. He reckons the worst problem comes from within the town however, strife between "brothers" bringing one party to ruin is frequent, even to the extent where the ruined brother has to sell himself to pay off his debts, and the priests are the worst robbers. There are discussions about setting out from Gyadam to find some other place to settle. The report is published in the Missionsmagazin 1855, vol. 4, p. 29-30 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.06.IV..43 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-01.06 - Ghana 1855: D-01.06.IV. - Akropong Title A name given to the resource Süss 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: 01.06.1855 Proper date: 01.06.1855 Description An account of the resource Presents the possibility of the Gyadam chief moving as very real, to a site three days’ journey away 'in Fanteland’. Three reasons are offered two repeat those offered in the earlier letter (vis-a-vis the Asantehene ‘with whom Agyemang has constant dealings' and Atta at Kibi who Süss says is trying to bring Gyadam under his authority). The third reason is that the bulk of Agyemang’s subjects already live in the district to which he is planning to travel. This subject had concerned the .people of Gyadam before Süss came there; for a year; it had not been much in the air, but for a month now has been discussed. Agyemang has pressed Süss for an assurance that he would accompany them. After temporising Süss’ answer is: If there is a formal agreement a.) that 'Agyemang would assure him of a present of land b.) build a missionhouse and a church c.) that Sunday, and not Monday and Friday, is made the day of rest d.) that he and the elders attend services e.) that no fetish priest will be tolerated in the new town. Süss is undecided over the question whether as mission policy it is better to remain in close contact with a town or start new Christian Communities (already the Gyadam people are calling the area. around his house his quarter. He wonders whether there might not be some point in setting up a mission town on the Afram, which he finds is one day's journey from Gyadam: it would be a good position for trade. He asks that the new missionary coming to join him (Baum) should pay special attention to medicine and botany. This would be a good start for investigating from time to time local medicines. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.06.IV..44 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-01.06 - Ghana 1855: D-01.06.IV. - Akropong Title A name given to the resource Süss 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: 02.07.1855 Proper date: 02.07.1855 Description An account of the resource The text of the letter is fully printed in Missionsmagazin 1855, pp. 56-58. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.06.IV..45 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-01.06 - Ghana 1855: D-01.06.IV. - Akropong Title A name given to the resource Süss 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: 29.08.1855 Proper date: 29.08.1855 Description An account of the resource In a postscript he comments that the Gyadam people have found a new source of gold, and that is one reason why the idea of emigrating to Fante has been dropped again. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.06.IV..47 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-01.06 - Ghana 1855: D-01.06.IV. - Akropong Title A name given to the resource Süss to Basel