327 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: 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: 28.01.1878 Proper date: 28.01.1878 Description An account of the resource Includes the point that Buck has arrived on the station, as has Cat. Anoba and pastor (deacon) Nath. Date. The numbers in the Christian community have risen from 56 to 108 (Kibi alone) with 80 communicants, 3 non-communicants, 25 children and 11 catechumens. In the boarding school are 49 pupils. Kukurantumi: Cat. Tete has been appointed to Kukurantumi as journeying preacher. The number of members in the community had increased in the year from 36 to 57, with 28 communicants, 3 non-communicants, 26 children and 19 catechumens. There were 23 pupils in the school. In Kibi several of the Christians have settled on the station or were building there. Cat, Mullings was transferred to Asiakwa, Sam Gyima ran away after playing a notable part on the side of the King in the disturbances and the subsequent court action. Anoba was posted to Akim to settle at Apedwa, but the disturbances interfered with that plan. Oware was specially assigned to preaching journeys and had spent time giving the Apapam Christians their early baptismal instruction. During the year 10 people had moved away from Kibi, and 1 had died. 6 Christians moved to Kibi, however. 4 children were born to Christian parents, and 49 people were baptised. 4 children, 39 men, and 6 women, (10 were from Apapam, at one stage there were 13 catechumens at Apapam, but 3 lapsed). Among the women is a cousin of King Ata - her Christian name was Susanna. This modest woman has already had to suffer a lot at the hands of the king, when it became known that, like her husband, she had decided to become a Christian. Ambassadors came from all over Akim (or, an embassy came from all the elders of Akim) to try to change her mind. When she refused the king took every opportunity to taunt her singing after the local custom “A princess has gone down the hill'. She wants to become a Christian and join the people who used to be slaves.’ Her reply to this was to point to Queen Victoria. They threatened to expel her from the royal family, and at the gathering of elders in September, at which Asante was so badly handled, she was formally expelled – at one time there were threats that she would lose the property she had inherited from her mother. This sort of persecution has been repeated in all the places with Christians - those at Apapam, Asiakwa, Abomosu and Asunafo have all suffered more or less. As a result, people in villages are asking urgently for land to be bought for them so that they can make separate villages. The rumour is now that since the Okyenhene has failed to drive out Asante, he will seek opportunities to poison the Christians. The religious life of the community, Asante reports that those who can read the bible regularly - and people have learned to pray as a group when the occasion warrants. In terms of speaking the truth and being industrious the life of the community is less than good. In the course of the year Asante himself travelled 21 days, his catechists etc. 169 days. Between then they preached in about 50 towns and villages. The same evening as the invasion of the station 8 men came to them from Abomesu to celebrate the Sunday with them (the riot took place on a Saturday). Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.29.XIII..232 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.XIII. - Kjebi Title A name given to the resource Asante's Report for the Year 1877 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: 31.01.1878 Proper date: 31.01.1878 Description An account of the resource The school had gone on peacefully in 1877 - the boys need to be prompted to tidiness and industry. He gives a biography of one of the Asante pupils. His name was Ofusuhene, his father had been the Asante representative in Kwahu, and thus taken prisoner when Kwahu declared for the English in the 1869-74 war and despatched with all the other Asante captives to Akim for onward escort to the coast. The father was one of those beheaded, however, and that the son was one of a party whom an English official tried to return to Asante, their escort only took them in fact to the last Akim town, and they were in fact secretly re-captured by the Akims. The boy was given to the chief of the border village by the Okyenhene, who in turn sold him to a rich man of the village, and Ofusuhene spent his time carrying loads to and from the coast. He then heard that there was a place in Kibi where slave boys could flee without fear of recapture. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.29.XIII..240 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.XIII. - Kjebi Title A name given to the resource Asante to the Basel Women's Association - A Report on the Boarding School in 1877 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: 09.02.1878 Proper date: 09.02.1878 Description An account of the resource Describes the difficulties when as many as 20 of the pupils claim to be sick in the morning. His picture is in fact one of pupils eager for the vacation to commence and not strongly motivated to do school work. 7 boys stayed in the charge of the Kibi station staff during the vacation - one was six-fingered, 3 were ex-slaves of Juabens. After the midyear vacation a number of boys did not return - one went to the Akropong Middle School, 4 simply left on the grounds they were getting too old to go to school - two were from Asuom. One of the latter has moved to live with his brother, a goldsmith in Akropong, and is attending school there as a day boy. Date also tells the Ofusuhene story (see Aasante’ report, No 240), with some additions information: Ofusuhene's father was called Koranteng - he was one of the chief captains of Kumasi, and had a reputation as an excellent settler of dispute and cases. The older boys at least were still making their own clothes. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.29.XIII..241 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.XIII. - Kjebi Title A name given to the resource Date's Report on the Boarding School in 1877 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: 02.02.1878 Proper date: 02.02.1878 Description An account of the resource Contains the information that the Kukurantumi chief had for a time been attending their street preaching, but, that be had been criticised for this by the fetish priest who tried to excite the people of the town against him. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.29.XIII..242 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.XIII. - Kjebi Title A name given to the resource Koranteng's Report in Kukurantumi in 1877 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: 11.04.1877 Proper date: 11.04.1877 Description An account of the resource Discusses in brief the opportunities for expansion in Akim. He is making preparations to station a man in Asiakwa. Fankyeneko has also indicated a strong wish for a teacher and there are 9 catechumens there. Apedwa also asks for a teacher, and though there are no catechumens there (an Apedwa family has become Christian and lives in Kibi) Asante believes that the right man would soon find converts. He believes the time for the Akim mission has arrived - the numbers of converts show no signs of decreasing. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.29.XIII..235 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.XIII. - Kjebi Title A name given to the resource Asante's 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: 09.07.1877 Proper date: 09.07.1877 Description An account of the resource 5 young men of the village of Apinaman (South of Kibi) have announced themselves as catechists. Preaching in Kibi is suffering from a great decrease in population due not only to the effects of the Emancipation, but also to many families moving out into farming villages. Because of this, and other circumstances, the Okyenhene has travelled to the coast to ask advice of the regime. It is much to be deplored that he is losing the respect of his people. He, on the other hand, nurses a secret hatred against the Christians, believing that their leaving his town for the mission station is a contributory factor to his difficulties. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.29.XIII.,236 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.XIII. - Kjebi Title A name given to the resource Asante's Report on the Second Quarter of 1877 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: 14.07.1877 Proper date: 14.07.1877 Description An account of the resource Reports a campaign to tighten up the teachers' control of the school, stopping the pupils going off to Kibi without permission e.g., and making sure that evening studies were supervised. A subscript, by J.M. Müller adds that the school was certainly in great disorder. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.29.XIII..237 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.XIII. - Kjebi Title A name given to the resource Date's Report on the Boarding School 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: 20.09.1877 Proper date: 20.09.1877 Description An account of the resource The assembly at which Asante was first told to leave Akim consisted of Ata and the elders of Kibi, Apedwa, and Apapam, and the 'people': The two charges preferred against him were that he had taken the initiative in getting Ata's slaves baptised, and had taken the initiative in getting people from Ata's own household whose duty it was to serve him to discontinue doing so. Asante claims that neither of these is true; he does claim on the other hand that he protected the ex-slaves against their former masters (including the Okyenhene) when they fled onto the station, and indeed anywhere else - and he had done this on the instructions of Gouldsbury. He has put pressure on the servants of the Okyenhene’s family to stay in his household as long as people allowed them to, also telling them what duties were and that duties were not consistent with serving God. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.29.XIII..231 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.XIII. - Kjebi Title A name given to the resource Asante 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: 27.09.1877 Proper date: 27.09.1877 Description An account of the resource The people named in the latter re Chief Oben of Senease, Prince Kwasi Kuma, Yeboa, Yaw Bekye, Kwasi Akwabo, Apea Wusu, Berewa. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.29.XIII.,234 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.XIII. - Kjebi Title A name given to the resource Governor Frealing to the Okyenhene 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: 08.10.1877 Proper date: 08.10.1877 Description An account of the resource Contains information not only about the events in Kibi in September, but also a preaching journey in Akim in August. This covered 17 villages, its general direction (North West and North East of Kibi) was determined by news of places where there were converts though this was by no means all places. The three Tafo villages (Ati, Tafo and Osiem) were visited but appear not to have contained any converts. In Asunafo were 6 converts (all men and youths). Asante does not judge as zealous as those of nearby Abomesu (7 men and boys) who are leaded by one of the most notable men of the town. In Abomosu he was told by the converts that there are people in Aaiakwa and Saman who would announce themselves as catechumens if they had a teacher. Indeed in another part of the report Asante writes that the new catechist in Asiakwa has already some catechumens including an ex-fetish priest (Asante specifically writes in connection with the location of Abomosu and the normal way to Asante that the latter passes Asiakwa, Saman, Osino and Anyinam and leaves Abomosu to one side.) Due to heavy rains Asante was not able to visit Apinaman and Asaman where a catechist had already found that there were converts - 9 in the latter (6 having already lapsed out of an original group of 15) and 10 in the former. There are converts too in Asuom, Apapam and its 3 neighbouring villages. In this situation of great potential development Asante suggests that 3 experienced catechists should be posted to Abomosu, Asaman and Apinaman (perhaps ordained as deacons first) and to save money first put into rented accommodation in the actual villages until it can be seen more clearly what was to emerge. Over events in Kibi: Asante had forbidden the Christian teachers to write letters for Ata without his knowledge (they were, of course, Akims). When the Okyenhene heard this he sent messengers to his advocate on the Coast and these returned on the day before the assembly in which Asante was ordered to leave Akim. At the meeting on the 20th the elders of the towns already named were in the assembly, with the asafos (young team). In the manuscript he lists a series of 6 charges made against him by the Okyenhene the only one (not reflected in the printed version in the Heidenbote, 1878 pp9ff) being that Asante had accused him of common theft. The Friday between the formal assembly and banning of Asante, and the riot on the station was the Friday before the Adae festival. Ata had - at some stage in the few months previously or in the actual events of August and September, three times conveyed charges against D. Asante to 'the highest people on the coast'. At the end of the report Asante writes a commentary on some of the charges made by the king against him: concerning the charge that Asante had charged the king with theft, Asante had charged members of the king's household with theft of goat of his, which the king had had to take on himself. And Asante had struck three of the king’s ‘boys’ who had chased hens on the station one Sunday morning during the conducting of a service. Asante's report gives a somewhat more detailed account of the Akwapimhene's embassy to Kibi which hinged on the question why no representative of Akwapim had been present during the legal proceedings which led to the banning of Asante from Akim. When Ata returned from his visit to the Coast in the middle of August it was with the Governor's commission to disarm the Juabens in Akim. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.29.XIII..238 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.XIII. - Kjebi Title A name given to the resource Asante's Report for the Third Quarter of 1877 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: 28.02.1877 Proper date: 28.02.1877 Description An account of the resource Once more concerned with the question of building and build costs. They give an estimate of costs and another computation of the types of expenses incurred so far. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.29.XV..253 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.XV. - Abetifi Title A name given to the resource 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: 12.03.1877 Proper date: 12.03.1877 Description An account of the resource Reports in extenso the destruction of the swish walls of the 2nd storey of the mission building by an unexpected early March thunderstorm (This is mentioned in the printed 1877 Annual Report). Damage is calculated at £60. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.29.XV..254 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.XV. - Abetifi Title A name given to the resource Werner 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: 07.04.1877 Proper date: 07.04.1877 Description An account of the resource With the arrival of missionary Buss on the station in March came 5 carpenters, though one has since returned to the coast. Weimer can now speak twi. He reports a frequent saying among the workmen that when the buildings are finished they will all come up here and worship God, and their children will come to the .school. They have restored the damage to the mission house by setting up plank walls instead of swish ones for the Second storey. (There is a subscript by Mader complimenting the missionaries on their speedy reactions to the earlier storm damage. He also says that he hears David Asante has 'brought back a horse and a cow from Salaga). Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.29.XV..255 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.XV. - Abetifi Title A name given to the resource Weimer 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: 13.04.1877 Proper date: 13.04.1877 Description An account of the resource The letter is mostly concerned with the question of his marrying. Evidently the matter is already in train, and the father of the lady involved is not ready to give his consent without knowing more about the accommodation in Abetifi. Werner therefore informs Basel about the building-state, and their expectations over the course of the next few months. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.29.XV..256 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.XV. - Abetifi Title A name given to the resource Werner 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: 20.04.1877 Proper date: 20.04.1877 Description An account of the resource Part of this letter is printed in ‘Heidenbote’ 1877, p. 78 under the title “The Fetish Tree of Asiakwa”. The only part of the report relevant to the Kwahu station is that he was able to recruit craftsmen for Abetifi only in Akropong, where it seems to have been am comparatively straight-forward matter. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.29.XV..263 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.XV. - Abetifi Title A name given to the resource Buss's First Quarter Report for 1877 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: 05.09.1877 Proper date: 05.09.1877 Description An account of the resource Contains political news. They were surprised a fortnight ago to hear from the coast news of a danger of war between the Juabens and Asante. No such worry is present in Kwahu, where the impression is that the Governor had taken energetic steps to ensure that the Juaben chiefs in Akim and Akwapim kept the peace. There is a rumour that the Asantehene has given the British Government £22’000 with the request that he will keep the Juabens from going to war with Asante. 6 weeks ago they received a second teacher – Em. Dako, who has quickly organised a school of about 14 boys of between 8 and 14. So far there has been little interest in the Christian religion. They have been the object of much friendliness in the chief fetish priest, but this only underlines their mutual unacceptability. Anyone in Abetifi town who says anything against the liturgies or his rules is punished, and he and one elder are together the main source of the influence exterted against boys coming to the school. There is a subscript in this letter from Dieterle in Aburi saying that on September 9th Captain Hay travelled back to Christiansborg withy many Akim people carrying 100 guns and much powder seized from the Juaben chiefs in Akim. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.29.XV..261 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.XV. - Abetifi Title A name given to the resource Werner 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: 15.01.1878 Proper date: 15.01.1878 Description An account of the resource The report is partially printed as an appendix to the Annual Report of the Basel Mission 1878 (p. 85ff). It is mostly phased in general terms. The Christian community has with difficulty been assembled on the quiet of the mission hill, away from the row of the heathen town. 4 have moved away, three died, the total of the end of 1877 was 28. He describes fetish reactions of a typhus epidemic. Catechist Obeng is having great success in the village round about, though only Fankyeneko is named in this connection. Additional material in the manuscript version: He describes in detail the difficulties experienced in getting the Christians out onto the mission station. One Christian had a very pretty house with all the accustomed comforts - a crude four-poster box bed, hung with ornaments and a large number of mirrors in the room. Another had an elderly father or relatives to look after who were heathens and believed that if they came into the Christian village the fetish would kill them. With others it was mainly a matter of laziness. The latter were simply commanded to move. As a digression to the above paragraph he gives a certain amount of information about furnishings etc. the bed is usually the most important piece of furniture, and often the only one. He has seen a room in Fankyeneko with no less than 13 mirrors in it; the owner must have brought one back with him every time he went to Accra. If the owner of a room has any pretence at education there will also be yellowing pictures out of an illustrated newspaper on the walls. The losses to the community are specified: - 2 carpenters, one mason and a boy who were in Begoro as a result of the building moved away (the boy to Akropong). - The deaths were of Joseph, the head of family baptised in the first group, and one of his children. The other is Johannes Asamoa, another of the first group of baptism and a member of a numerous and influential family. Since both their wives were also baptised (Asamoa’s wife with the name Sophie) the station now has to young widows. A fourth death occurred on the station at the end of the year – a maidservant who was still a heathen, and indeed her grandmother and father-in-law were both fetish priests. The Christians behaved well on the whole, except for one man who drank too much. There have been few baptismal candidates – perhaps because of the deaths on the station, though the epidemic in the town also to blame. The station now has a teacher in addition to Catechist Obeng, and though a fair number of boys have come fairly from the opposition between town and mission during the epidemic. The other villages where Catechist Obeng has worked with success are named as Osino, Dwenase, and Gyampoani. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.29.XIV..252 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's Annual Report for 1877 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: 28.05.1877 Proper date: 28.05.1877 Description An account of the resource On the subject of peoples’ attitudes to the Mission he reports a general disillusionment with the fetish priests. People often say to him that they do not believe in the fetishes but they are afraid. It is true that there are other problems hindering the development of the Christian community, especially the problem of indebtedness. Once in debt there is little chance for people to escape, since apart from working for the mission there is no way of earning money – there is no market in Begoro, and if they take up trade it can only be in spirits (They are very worried indeed about the question what economic activities to take up on the mission station). He speaks about the people, thus implying that he is speaking about the limits imposed on them by slavery. No mention is made of the salt or snail trade. Another reason for the slowness of the development of the Christian community is that the elders are unhappy about the prospect of the disappearance of dancing and traditional customs. The fetish priests are in a precarious position because they see that their religion is laughed at and no longer believed in, and they do not wish to lose their influence. Yet their efforts to impress people with their mad liturgies carry little weight with the younger people, and more and more people are conscious that they are not working for the good of the people. He had recently been asked to intervene by two of the Christians - Jacob Su and Petro Saw – because a relative of them had died, and an old fetish priestess has claimed that her fetish had killed him, and therefore his body should be thrown away in the bush and not buried. Mohr took the body and had it buried on mission land, to the joy of the family. At the same time he came to the conclusion that the man had been killed by poison. He was young and healthy, but had become suddenly ill, and died within two weeks. Since then 5 people from the same family had died, all in their prime. Mohr thinks that it is his grandmother who is indeed that same fetish priestess, who has caused the death. She is old and lame and sick, and since she can no longer take attendants with her by having them killed at her funeral, she is poisoning them beforehand. He visited her and accused her of this to her face in talking to people about her he seems to have stressed that he could only see in her a poor old woman who was a trouble to herself as well as to other people; that her activities were putting her in danger of the wrath of God; and that by the fetish was to be found only slavery and death, and that she could chose the peace of the Christian community (There is no information about the woman and her fetish except that it had a house with doors painted outside in with white earth, and apparently some men keeping the house who would not let Mohr in although the woman had invited him to see the fetish. There also seems a tendency to regard the woman herself as the fetish). Speaking about the surrounding villages Mohr reports interest, but also some misapprehensions. Many people think that to become a Christian is to become looked after. Many say openly that if their – say 10 Thaler – are paid, then they will become Christians. There is also a widespread wish for the missionaries to come to individual villages and build new houses – the people would thus always have someone to serve. Nevertheless he considers, given healthy and one or two effective catechist, they could have outstations in every village between Begoro and Kibi and Begoro and Anyimam. Fankyeneko he has recommended especially as a site for a catechist. This partly because it is the crossroad where the Kukurantumi-Anyinam-Abetifi road crosses the Asiakwa-Begoro road. Of only the government would create some employment by sponsoring road building, things could go ahead faster, but there is no market centre in Akim and thus no future in each farming until the way to the coast is easier. Fankyeneko also seems a good site for a catechist in that 9 men have just come forward as baptismal candidates there. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.29.XIV..248 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's Second Quarter's Report for 1877 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: 08.08.1877 Proper date: 08.08.1877 Description An account of the resource Includes the accounts of the building both to date, and with estimates of the costs to come. There are also estimates for making a churchyard and building a wall. Work on the station so far into 1877 had been held up by the bad weather, and the lack of carpenters. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.29.XIV..246 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 Station Conference Protocoll