317 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/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.21a.III. 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-01.21a - Ghana 1869 Title A name given to the resource Abokobi 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/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.21a.IV. 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-01.21a - Ghana 1869 Title A name given to the resource Aburi 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/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.21b.V. 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-01.21b - Ghana 1869 Title A name given to the resource 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: 29.01.1869 Proper date: 29.01.1869 Description An account of the resource According to Eisenschmid the earlier proceedings had left Ampaw of Kukurantumi in undisputed possession of the land, though with a heavy fine to pay on account of his representatives misuse of the Okyenhene’s oath. However, following the death of King Atta, the Maase and Asafo people became restive about the judgement, and the Maase chief went to Akwapim, and sold large stretches of the land to the Akwapims for low prices. On the 11th January this situation was considered formally in Kibi - fetish being drunk by both parties and the judges that the former would abide by the decision and the latter would judge fairly and impartially. On January 12th Ampaw put his case - and the other party simply left the court, Eisenschmid presumes because they could see they were hopelessly in the wrong. The missionaries tried to act as mediators, without success. One result of the situation is that the Kukurantumi school is at collapsing point. The children which Ampaw had put into it at the end of the previous year no longer attend - when Eisenschmid taxed him with this he replied with the proverb “No-one speaks someone else's word until he has spoken his own”. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.21b.VI..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-01.21b - Ghana 1869: D-01.21b.VI. - Kibi Title A name given to the resource Eisenschmid's Report about further Developments in the Kukurantumi / Asafo Land Case 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: 04.02.1869 Proper date: 04.02.1869 Description An account of the resource The protocoll discusses Gibson’s application to be transferred from Kukurantumi - at that stage no further developments had occurred in the land case, though many people felt it might lead to open warfare. A subscript dated 2 March 1869 to the Stations Conference Minutes is written by Schrenk as Mission Cashier. He remarks that he is now having to collect English money for the Akim missionaries, because the Akims are wanting English money for purchases in Cape Coast where the Spanish silver dollar is worth only 4/2d. He suggests that they should set up a mission shop in Kukurantumi so that instead of having to take the trouble to send silver, they could send merchandise. Another subscript from Mader (dated 26 February 1869) advises inter al that the teacher makes the school (an argument for not concluding that external factors make it necessary to move Gibson). Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.21b.VI..2 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-01.21b - Ghana 1869: D-01.21b.VI. - Kibi Title A name given to the resource Staton 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: 03.04.1869 Proper date: 03.04.1869 Description An account of the resource To the minutes there are subscripts concerning trouble over the boundaries of the Mission Land in Kibi. People in the town were disputing the mission's ownership of a strip of land on the town side of the mission land, and another strip along the Berem, and at the same time offering to let the mission expand to the extent of the area of the two disputed strips in the remaining directions. The missionaries' first reaction was to stick to the letter of the purchase letter and take the case to the Governor. However the Kibi missionaries decided in the end to try to make concessions and settle the dispute peaceably, while Missionary Schrenk in a subscript doubts if they would get much help from the Government, which tends to extend its influence over Akim only when it is in its own interest to do so. Leading people in the dispute on the Kibi side are the two female relatives of the Okyenhene, Ampofoa, the Okyenhene's mother, whose house was next to the boundary of the mission land on the town side, and Sekyera, his aunt. The difficulties on the town border had arisen because the town was being extended by the building of new houses (the impression given is that of a normal, slow increase in houses). Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.21b.VI..5 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-01.21b - Ghana 1869: D-01.21b.VI. - Kibi Title A name given to the resource Station Conference Minutes 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: 15.04.1869 Proper date: 15.04.1869 Description An account of the resource One feature of the station is that the paths have a European width about them. And one of the distinguishing features of the youths on the station is that they appear to care about the future - which is not a characteristic of their comrades in the heathen town. Boys in the school who are not gifted enough, or too old, or simply do not want to go to the Middle school in Akropong are learning a trade - 3 are learning carpentry, and one has waited a long time for a lockmaker to come to Osato whom he can be apprenticed. Samuel Amoa has learned to become self-supporting in carpentry, and has recently celebrated his independence by entering into a Christian marriage. Economically the mission has had an appreciable impact on the Akim people as a whole - the mango is now to be found growing in many places, and every big village has some coffee which they take to Cape Coast to sell. Amoa’s wife was a daughter of Ampao of Kukurantumi. She had lived and worked in the households of Kromer, and later Eisenschmid. She was baptised 'Maria' at Christmas. Kromer reports on the case of Opuni (see the Annual Report). He had been entrusted with slaves and money by his father - head of a rich family in Asante - to make purchases on 'the Akim frontier' (here and in the Annual Report he is described as a youth. He had heard from his grandmother that she had been stolen from Akim during an Asante invasion, and that some of her relatives were still alive in Akim. He had resolved to try to visit this family, and when he had made the 'usual' purchases, loaded the slaves, and given the remaining money to the elder slave, he set out on this mission. In the next town he was recognised as an Asante, arrested, sent to the Okyenhenes who then had him sold, and in this way he came into the hands of his grandmother's family as a slave. The family treated him well, however, and were prepared to send him on expeditions not only to Accra, but also to the Asante boarder. He could have run away there with no difficulty (he in fact actually met a brother who urged him to do this), but he did not, and Kromer ascribes this to his interest in the Christian religion. He is now both a trustworthy, slave and a baptismal candidate with a real desire to learn. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.21b.VI..6 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-01.21b - Ghana 1869: D-01.21b.VI. - Kibi Title A name given to the resource Kromer's Report for the First Quarter of 1869 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: 25.04.1869 Proper date: 25.04.1869 Description An account of the resource The report is mainly concerned with a journey in the second half of January to the northern boundary of Akim, accompanied by Kwabi, Ako, and a number of the Kibi schoolboys. Travelling west and north from Kibi over a high hill they found no village before Kwamang, which he describes as a very small village. One hour northwards they reached Bangso. They were friendly received there, and after preaching were asked questions about what they had said. On the second day, before leaving Bangso, Lodholz saw an elderly man making an offering. He stood outside his house door holding an egg up as if to throw it, then cast it onto the ground, bowing to it twice, all the time uttering ununderstandable words. Asked, Kwabi said this showed that he was going to undertake some notable work during the day, and asked a blessing on from his fetish. They then travelled, passing through and preaching at Akorofufu and Awyenade after which they reached Kwabeng, where they stayed the night. Their preaching was well received by a large crowd, no doubt drawn by curiosity mostly since it was probably the first time anyone had preached there. They met the two Kwabeng scholars at home on holiday - and another boy asked to be accepted at the school, with his mother's permission. Kwabeng has the reputation of being very rich in gold. They stayed overnight in a pretty house belonging to a man who ought to have been very rich, but was in fact poor because of his constant illnesses. On the third day they came to Anyinam, where, when the Asantes and Akim are trading, there are great throngs of people. On the day of his visit the people at first said there were no places in which he could stay, though eventually, when he prepared to move on to another town, the elders met and the chief himself offered him a bed. In the chief's house Lodholz was surrounded by signs of fetish worship - an amulet hung above his bed, and when he opened a curtain in his room he found it led straight into the chamber of the fetish itself - the fetish itself was in two jars, and around it was fufu, eggs, slaughtered hens. The room was decorated with amulets stem. In Anyinam he preached on the 10 Commandments to convince people of their sins - dwelling especially on the 1st and 2nd. On the fourth day he travelled on almost unusable paths to Adesawase at the foot of the northern Akim hills. The roads were deliberately bad in order to protect the people from surprise attack from the Aaantes. At Adasewase they had a very inattentive audience, in Neupompe Lodholz spoke on the dangers of hell fire after a man had told him (when he was urging boys to come to his school in Kibi) that he did not want to learn anything, he only wanted to give himself up to the lusts of the flesh. A fetish priest in this village who wanted to disturb the preaching walk shamed back to his house by the hostility of the villagers themselves. They stayed the night at Odyenase where there was again a great crowd of attentive listeners. On the fifth day he visited Gyadam, though could not go onto the Mission Hill because he felt fever coming on –and had to hurry to catch up his carriers in Osino. They passed through Samang, where a friendly man let Lodholz lie in his own room while the fever went off, then they went on to Asiakwa. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.21b.VI..7 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-01.21b - Ghana 1869: D-01.21b.VI. - Kibi Title A name given to the resource Lodholz' Report for the First Quarter of 1869 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: 30.06.1869 Proper date: 30.06.1869 Description An account of the resource Concerning the dispute between the elder Piedu and Abr. Boamma over a slave. There had been enmity between Abr. Boama and the other slaves of Piedu before he became a Christian. After he became a Christian the young slave of his whom he had given to Piedu to replace his services fell ill. A fetish told him that he was ill because he was not serving his former master, and Boamma became to be suspected of witchcraft and poisoning. People began to threaten him with the carrying of the corpse if the young slave died. At this stage the missionaries intervened and organised a meeting with Apiedu. Boamma defended himself so vehemently that it almost came to blows. After the missionaries had silenced him Piedu recited the possible causes of Boamma’s enmity to the young slave, including the fact that he was having intimate relations with a girl whose mother had refused to allow Boamma to have her as his wife. The missionaries declared, however, that there was no reason to suspect Boamma at all - the idea that he wanted the slave back was impossible, since no baptised Christian had slaves. And if the Kibi people started to threaten Boamma with carrying the corpse then the matter would be taken to the Governor. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.21b.VI..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-01.21b - Ghana 1869: D-01.21b.VI. - Kibi Title A name given to the resource Lodholz 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: 28.07.1869 Proper date: 28.07.1869 Description An account of the resource He has been teaching arithmetic in the Kibi school - they apparently teach gold-dust reckoning as well, since he remarks that one can see how much more difficult it is to do arithmetic in the Kibi school from a table of relative values: 1 pesewa = 1.125 pence 1 dama = 2 1/4 ipence. 1 kokowa = 4 1/2 pence 1 nteku = 6.75 pence 8 nteku = 1 dollar Kramer reports the case of the lapse of Mose Efoa, a schoolboy who had had a good reputation with them, and had been baptised by Eisenschmid. He had stayed away from school for a short while, and on his return it transpired that he had been at his home (Dadeantem) where he had been involved in a severe quarrel with a man and had sworn an oath on his mother in order to gain credence for his evidence when he had been before the elders. He was not put under discipline on his return, but soon disappeared again. The two missionaries visited Dadeantem soon after and found that the people there had just carried the corpse of a dead man, and the family of the woman on whose house the corpse had bumped took the initiative in keeping the missionaries out of the village, so that they had to preach to a very small group on its outskirts. They learned, however, that the woman who was now regarded as a witch was Mose Efoa's mother, end that probably that oath was the thing which had enabled the elders to begin to rob the woman (who was wealthy) of all property and honour. Efoa had no intention of returning to the mission circle this time. Street preaching in Kibi is described as regularly attended by strangers who are continually there, also by Kibi people, the elder Asare Kansari being especially in evidence. The women, though still not taking part in street preaching, are attaching themselves to the girls who live with the mission households. 23 Asantes are in the block in Kibi. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.21b.VI..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-01.21b - Ghana 1869: D-01.21b.VI. - Kibi Title A name given to the resource Kromer's Report for the Second Quarter of 1869 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: 12.08.1869 Date late: 31.08.1869 Proper date: 12.08.1869-31.08.1869 Description An account of the resource The woman involved - it seems to have been generally accepted - though often on mission land had no sustained relationship with Asante. She was a mulatto wife of the elder Kwasi Amoako. Asante confessed quickly after the event and the Kibi missionaries were clearly impressed with his penitence. Mader, on the other hand, judged that no mercy should be shown, and that Asante should leave Kibi immediately and on the Basel Committee's confirming the suggestion, be completely excluded from working for the mission for two years. Widmann suggests that this would be a false move in the case of such an able man - if he were completely excluded he would not be able to hold himself in the sort of situation in which he could be easily re-accepted into mission employment. He cites the cases of the catechists Simon Koranteng who during suspension from pastoral duties worked for the Bremen Mission, and Carl Quist who in a similar position worked, on the Anum station, and suggests that Asante should be employed by the Trading Company at Ada or some other place. Mader's harsh judgements are set forth at some length, and include some points about the case and his attitude to it and the many similar ones. This is the third such case with which he had had to deal - Isak Ostertag and John Asare had also fallen under discipline for sexual irregularity. Indeed of the seven people trained.in Chr. Asante's class, one now remained in the service of the mission – Kwabi. Furthermore, Mader discounts the open confession made by Asante. At about the time he had written his letter to Widmann he had also written to Boafo, the chief of Akropong asking 57 dollars adultery fees. This means that he knew that the act would not be kept secret by the other party. Boafo is later- described as Asante's 'wicked brother'. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.21b.VI..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-01.21b - Ghana 1869: D-01.21b.VI. - Kibi Title A name given to the resource Documents concerning Chr. Asante's Fall (Station's Conference Minutes dated 12 August 1869, Chr. Asante to Widmann dated 16 August 1869, Gold Coast General Conference Committee Minutes dated 31 August 1869) 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: 19.08.1869 Proper date: 19.08.1869 Description An account of the resource Announces rumours that the Asantes were encamped near Bomoso - the missionaries were regretting not having sent loads off to Accra with the Accra people. Mader’s subscript doubts the number of Asantes at the Akim frontier - an Abosu man had been killed by an Asante scout, but the Begoro people had taken 80 Asantes prisoner. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.21b.VI..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-01.21b - Ghana 1869: D-01.21b.VI. - Kibi Title A name given to the resource Lodholz to Mader 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: 04.09.1869 Proper date: 04.09.1869 Description An account of the resource Transmitting information about the missionary prisoners obtained from an Asante released after capture by the Crepes who was in Kibi. The missionaries had been taken prisoner, and before chief Openten it had had to be decided whether they were to be killed or set free. Eventually the decision was taken to send them to Karikari, and their belongings were sent ahead of them. After two days journey Ramseyer had protested about the conditions of the march, and they were provided with 14 carriers for the three adults (they were now with a Frenchman) with two carrying baskets, and two men to carry the child. The missionaries asked what had happened about their clothes and headgear, and whether their heads had been shaved, since alarming rumours had been circulating on this point. The refugee replied that they had kept their clothing and headgear and had not been shaved. At the Asante attack, the Anums and Crepes had fled to a hill called Tatabari Nyampon, from where they made frequent attacks on the Asantes, and had taken many prisoners. They had also killed many Asantes by sending stones down on them as they attacked the hill. When hunger became a problem they sent slaves to the more distant farms, but many of these had been captured by the Asantes. The situation had become difficult, with sickness and hunger making great inroads in the numbers of armed men. The Anglos had fought with the Asantes at first, but now had left them after gaining little success, and suffering the misfortune of running out of bullets and having to use instead cowries and little stones. The Asantes now stand in danger of being cut off from their homeland through an Akim army, which is standing in the Nort-West of Begoro. The Asantes' main objective is the head of the Crepe king, Kwadwo Dee. The Akwamus are especially concerned to take Dompere dead or alive. The source of this information had been twice captured, twice escaped, and on his return to Kwahu had found his wife had been taken away with a small piece of cloth tied around her loins, to indicate that she was a sacrifice at the next great festival in Kumasi. At this he had expressed himself in such a way that severe punishment would follow, and had fled. He had been an eye witness of the state of the white prisoners, and had seen the missionaries' goods being transported to Kumasi. He had also been in Kwahu shortly after their passage through Kwahu to Kumasi. As for the situaition in Akim - there were reports of an Asante army in North-West Akim, but this turned out to be only a group of Kwahus. Fining from Begoro and Diedu from Asiakwa are encamped on the North-West border, and Ampao of Kukurantumi is on the North-West border following the Kwahu activity, but expects to be there only a week. Mrs Kromer had been sent to Accra, and the missionaries had secured their movable possessions. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.21b.VI..13 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-01.21b - Ghana 1869: D-01.21b.VI. - Kibi Title A name given to the resource Lodholz 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: 08.01.1869 Proper date: 08.01.1869 Description An account of the resource During 1868 the station staff changed in that - Brother Krauss died - Brother Schönhuth arrived, and was joined by his wife - The Ramseyer's arrived. A new catechist was also appointed to Anum after Obuobisa had failed to find a way of returning and they had been without from 1st July 1867 to 30th April 1868 — the new catechist was Chr. Asiedu. Little has changed in the outward appearance of the station and its land. In the work of the station, Schönhuth took over the trading side, and was able to restore it to regular operations in spite of the blockades. Chr. Asiedu gets a good report, especially in his performance when the missionaries get into palavers. He has little zeal for preaching to the heathen, however, and has to be supervised in his three hours per day school work. His translation work is good (Müller is still having to be translated when he preaches even into Twi: & Chr. Asiedu had only begun to learn Kyerepong when he arrived in Anum). Müller has been teaching him Greek and Hebrew. The Christian community increased through 6 people who moved to Anum from other congregations, and two new baptisms. One is Johane Ahima, a 22 year-old Anum man - he works on the station, living in the mission community. The other is Lydia Mamle, born in Ada, niece of an assistant on the trading side who lives with him as his cock. He thinks it had a real meaning for their hearts when they were baptised. One previous member of the Christian community had returned to his home near Late. Of the total Christian community of 14, 9 live in Anum, 5 in Awudome. The 9 communicants among them are mostly in the 15-30 age group, and need careful pastoral care. The non-communicants are a promising 12 year old boy, a young woman, a 6-year old girl, and 2 children of Christian parents. Most of the Christians resident in Anum live on the station. They have 8 youths on the station who act as their servants and at the same time attend school - only one is baptised. Although Müller has sometimes held his school in the streets of the town and tried to persuade more parents to send their children, he has not been-successful, though he thinks it is only a matter of time, and a fuller understanding of the advantages of education before people do begin to respond. When they are able to conduct street preaching, there is usually a group of 20-30 listeners in Anum itself, not so much patience elsewhere. Müller mentions villages 4-5 hours to the north where the people are of Kyerepong origins, but where he thinks they are changing over to the use of Ewe, and only the older people speak Kyerepong. There is one catechumen from Anum - he is really affected by the worry about eternal punishment. The Bremen missionaries have once more played a most important part in the survival of the station, giving a great deal of help to travelling missionaries, and ensuring a regular supply of foodstuffs, and regular postal arrangements. In a Subscript Schrenk reports the arrival of Müller in Osu. He has become a little eccentric in his isolation. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.20b.VIII..12 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-01.20b - Ghana 1868: D-01.20b.VIII. - Anum Title A name given to the resource Müller's Report for the Year 1868 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: 20.05.1869 Proper date: 20.05.1869 Description An account of the resource Relays report from Zimmermann that 12,000 armed Asantes are in Akwamu, and that another Asante army has crossed the Volta one day's journey upstream from Anum. He comments that the Asantes and Akwamus have given assurances that they will not attack the station, but that, of course 'stealing everything' is not necessarily 'attacking'. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.21a.I..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-01.21a - Ghana 1869: D-01.21a.I. - General Conference / Africa Title A name given to the resource Schrenk 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: 25.06.1869 Proper date: 25.06.1869 Description An account of the resource Contains a copy of a letter of Chr. Rottmann‘s (Kata) dated 19th June 1869, addressed to Widmann in Akropong as Prases of the Gold Coast Mission. The uncertainty about the situation in Anum has developed into a relative but menacing certainty. This news has come to them in a letter from Chr. Rottmann dated 19th June — ‘...this afternoon messengers came from Anyako with the news that Br. Manfeld, and his sick wife, had arrived there from Waya, that the Ho missionaries had all fled with the exception of Hornberger and Müller: and that the Asante armies were on the attack. According to letters from Müller in Ho the Asantes were already in Pekyi on the 12th and were expected in Ho any day. Nothing is certain about Anum, except that if the Asantes are in Pekyi, one can be sure they have also occupied Anum. A letter also reports that, according, to the Awudomes, two Europeans have been seen in Asante hands, and these were probably the Anum missionaries. They hear that the Pekyis and Anums were terrified of the Asantes, and ran at the first battle, which would tend to confirm this news. This seems to have happened in Ho, where the above mentioned missionaries are quite alone with their local staff, the Ho people having apparently made no attempt at resistance. These reports are not, of course, certain, but very probably true.’ Walker adds that they have every ground to hope that the missionaries if not their property will be handled with indulgence, because six months ago the Asantehene, in gratitude for the missionaries' saving of an Asante at the hands of the Anums, is said to have assured one of the missionaries (Schönhuth) of his complete protection. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.21a.II..25 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-01.21a - Ghana 1869: D-01.21a.II. - Christiansborg Title A name given to the resource J. Walker 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: 31.12.1869 Proper date: 31.12.1869 Description An account of the resource Station statistics for Kibi include the point that away from the town the mission land bordered farms belonging to Apiedu. Nath. Date from Mamfe is the catechist (following Chr. Asante's 'fall'), and the number of members of the community has dropped in the course of the year from 42 to 37, with 21 Communicants. There were 2 catechumens. The headmaster of the Boarding School is now Brother Haas, and the school now consists of 25 boarders, 10 girls, and 3 day-boys. In Kukurantumi there was at the end of 1869 no Mission Agent other than Ph. Kwabi, and in the school were no scholars other than Kwabi's 'own people'. In Kibi the boundaries of the mission land were not changed. The coffee would have done well if the price was not so low, and some Christians have farms on the North and North-East side, started that very year. Building operations (repair of the chapel/school) seem to have been carried out simply by the missionaries and their servants. The station was rather weakly held in the middle months of the year since Eisenschmid had been posted to Aburi on account of his health, Kromer went with his wife to the coast on account of the danger from the Asantes, and Haas only arrived in November in Kibi. The villages around Kibi were visited fairly frequently nevertheless (Apedua, Apapam, Date-Entam, Tette), so were Kukurantumi and Asiakwa, and Lodholz made one long trek through Bangso, Kwabang Anyinam, Otschenase, Sarmang, Asiakwa. Kwabi gets an excellent report for staying at Kukurantumi (except for a period when he was in Kibi because the Kukurantumi people had mobilised in case of an Asante invasion) and maintaining his work in face of constant disappointments. He has faced the temptation to leave, but is always pleased to hear words of encouragement. Gibson was transferred to Tutu in the course of the year. Further education for the catechist and teacher in Kibi amounted to 2 hours per week arithmetic, and one hour a week discussing Bormann's Schulkunde - passages which had previously been translated into English by a missionary and then copied by the catechist and teacher. One hour a week was also given over to teaching world history. The movement of members in the Kibi community: Chr. Asante's family numbered 6, 2 baptised schoolboys were excluded for sexual offences and heathen manners, another one was transferred to the Akropong Boarding School, and two Christians moved away from Kibi. In the other direction Nath. Date entered the community (as yet unmarried) and there were five baptisms: Thomas Doku, a convert straight from heathen society without being first a member of the school, or on the station payroll. Stefano Opuni, an Asante youth Nathaniel, a 16-18 year old schoolboy Theophilo, a 10 year old schoolboy Immanuel, a 9 year old schoolboy. One baptismal candidate, Sakyi was deterred from baptism by opposition of his relatives and the Okyenhene. Commenting on the 'religious' life of the community Lodholz writes that though sustained absence from services was noted and followed up, this was not a frequent failing. They had been pleased by the reactions of the community when, in November, the Okyenhene and elders had suggested that it should be agreed that no slaves and pawns should be allowed to be baptised. The community suggested unanimously that the station should be uprooted and taken to some location where it was more welcome. They had, however, in addition to the disciplinary troubles with two schoolboys, difficulties with two of the girls on the station. Neither could be proved guilty of more than lying - one had accused Kwabi of seducing her. In Kukurantumi the community now stands at 11, with 5 communicants. The major event in the year was the re-exclusion of Ewyi, who it was discovered had pawned his brother to Kwabi to pay the debt he had incurred in the adultery which led to his first exclusion (Kwabi claimed that he knew nothing of a rule against accepting pawns, sent Ewyi's brother away immediately, and apparently suffered no further discipline). Ewyi’s idea being that when his brother was baptised, the Mission would be sure to buy him free of the debt. When they discovered that this plan was not likely to work out they both saved into attitudes of enmity to the community. Reporting on the Boarding School, Lodholz feels that the value of education is being recognised to a certain extent. They now have 4 boys from Kwabeng, who have come quite of their own free will to the school - and in a case where a boy was expelled for drunkenness when taking part in a heathen festival, not only he but his uncle came and pled most stringently for his re-acceptance. Their contact with the people of Kibi is not only carried on through the street preaching - they also care for the sick and treat people with wounds. In Tette and Adadentua they were able to preach the whole year - in most other places they had to stop preaching in some months when the Akim army was in the field. Kwabi had visited Tafo 16 times, Osiem 15 times, Enyinasin 3 times, Maase 9 times. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.21b.VI..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-01.21b - Ghana 1869: D-01.21b.VI. - Kibi Title A name given to the resource Year's Report for the District 1869 (in Lodholz' Writing) 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: 13.09.1869 Proper date: 13.09.1869 Description An account of the resource Applies through the Slave Emancipation Commission for 40 dollars to obtain the release of Opuni, a man enslaved to a relative at Kukurantumi after he had travelled to Akim to find his family, his mother having been an Akira woman taken to Asante during a raid. His master had agreed that Opuni should work for the missionaries, but then being called into the field wanted to take his slaves with him, and required the missionaries to purchase his freedom. They agreed, on the grounds that they needed a trustworthy servant (Lodholz' old servant, Jonathan Asumen, was due to go to the teacher's seminary at Akropong) and that the real marks of an inner life were observable in Opuni, and so apply for the sum of 40 dollars, having already paid down a 10 dollar deposit, and, apologise for the irregularity in proceeding in this way. Opuni’s uncle who died shortly before his arrival in Akim was the father of the Akropong Middle-School pupil Emmanuel Adere. On his arrival from Asante Opuni was put in the block and his family had to pay for his release. The point that his trading activities had taken him back to Asante and involved long periods away from Kukurantumi is made once more in this report. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.21b.VI..14 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-01.21b - Ghana 1869: D-01.21b.VI. - Kibi Title A name given to the resource Staton 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: 06.10.1869 Proper date: 06.10.1869 Description An account of the resource Some of the schoolboys had hoped that the missionaries, acting as their fathers, would provide them with weapons for the war. Akim had been urged to join the alliance against Asante by messengers from the native king of Accra, and the ‘Fante Confederation’. The request from these ambassadors was that the Akims should do something to cut off the Asante forces in Crepe - part of the Asante route to Crepe was across Akim territory. The Akim response to this, after a war-council in Kibi, was to cut off trade with Asante which up till then had still been carried on. Within 4 days 36 prisoners had been brought in - merchants captured as they tried to carry on their trade. Later (9th August) a letter from Mader advising Kromer to move his family to Accra had arrived simultaneously with the shin-bone of the Asante captured in the Akropong plantations. The Bomoso incident was one in which three Bomosu men in an advanced position keeping an eye on the merchant's road to Asante had been attacked, and two killed. There has been yet another case of adultery in Kukurantumi. There is now only one member of the congregation - a man called Jakob - who has not been guilty of this sin. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.21b.VI..15 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-01.21b - Ghana 1869: D-01.21b.VI. - Kibi Title A name given to the resource Kromer's Report for the Third Quarter of 1869 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: 13.10.1869 Proper date: 13.10.1869 Description An account of the resource Reports a great deal of activity in fetish customs, especially led by a woman of the royal house, the matron Sekyira. He interprets this as intended to restore fetishes to their earlier reverence, and also to hinder street-preaching. Their reception in street-preaching has not been injured by the Asante incident. Lodholz offers the biographies of two Kibi-young men who quite of their own free-will had registered as baptismal candidates. The men had been once in an organic connection with the mission, but were now in no connection with it, other than baptismal candidates: (i) Kwaku Sakyi - from the house of the elder Kwasi Amoako. His sister is a wife of the king - she had in the past year born twins (a boy and a girl) and these had been quickly drowned in secret, for the king had also become the father of twin boys shortly before, and this new birth was thought to be a threat to the family. He had been at school for a time in the early 1860s, but about 1863 was forced to carry out custom for his mother by the head of the family and since then had contracted a debt and taken to drink. Lodholz interprets his conversion as coming from a desire to live free of his adults. (ii) Kofi Doku. The man who had accidental struck the Okyenhene. He had become part of Kwasi Amoako’s household through his father, who had been assigned as part of the annual tribute of men for Asante and had been bought free of this by Amoako. (The father was from Akim-Akropong). He also had spent some time in the Basel Mission school, but had been persuaded to withdraw. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.21b.VI..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-01.21b - Ghana 1869: D-01.21b.VI. - Kibi Title A name given to the resource Lodholz' Report for the Third Quarter of 1869