330 20 77903 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: 02.04.1878 Proper date: 02.04.1878 Description An account of the resource Reports about a 2-day journey which he made with Ramseyer preaching along the path between Abetifi and Kwahu-Tafo. At Bukuruwa the king was building a new house, and invited them all to come and live in it when it was finished, since it would be big enough. At Tafo they found that the king and many of his people were away fishing. The hut where Ramseyer had slept in Tafo while a prisoner was in ruins - and Ramseyer remarked that all the huts where they had stayed which he had seen since his return were in ruins. In this case they heard that the owner of the hut had poisoned his wife, and then himself committed suicide. In the evening in Tafo they collected the majority of the inhabitants for preaching. Ramseyer talked about the reliability and kindness of God, and gave the example of his own life. The feared Asantes had been able to do nothing to him but in fact had helped to spread the gospel. At Borukuwa on the way back they found that a fetish priestess had collected the people, but she drew back then she saw the missionaries and thus allowed them to preach. It was on this journey that the missionaries first heard of and saw the water-fall at Amama. In his final comment Glatzle describes the people of Kwahu as enslaved, presumably this is a cliche about their religious situation. In Osino on the way back to Begoro his sleep was disturbed from about 11p.m. by a smith working next door. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.30.XVIII..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-01.30 - Ghana 1878: D-01.30.XVIII. - Begoro Title A name given to the resource Quarterly Report for the First Quarter by Glatzle Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 10.04.1878 Proper date: 10.04.1878 Description An account of the resource The impact of the struggle between Atta in Kibi and David Asante, and the latter's being posted away from Kibi, has been that people feel that Atta has won a victory, and that he has acted or the basis of recognised rights. In the typhus epidemic 170 people died. The pigs which were first driven out to appease the fetishes had been bought in Larteh and Kwahu. Mohr’s angle on the situation in this report is to cite Amos c3v6 and argue that the deaths were God trying to lead the people to himself. Once the mission was accused of being the cause they were no longer allowed to preach and visit in the town. And a major outbreak occurred in March, when they set out to cut down another Odum. It was lead by Abam the Asafohene, who gathered the people together and issued the order about not selling to the ehristiens, and also began to talk about driving Mohr out of Begoro just as Asante had been driven out of Kibi. Mohr communicated with Christiansborg, where Dieterle and Buhl discussed the matter orally with the governor. The latter sent a warning to the Begorohene, who had not been there when the trouble started, but in any case would do nothing since Abam was his rival, and had all the young hotheads with him. The Asafohene has just recently started a case against the fetish priest of Osino before Atta on the grounds that he was connected with the death roll in 1877. But the fetish priest of Osino is in Accra in order to get the case decided there. Although on the whole in the last year the people have been hostile to the Christian community there evidences of contrary opinions too. The heathen indeed are aware that an overthrow of fetishism and the power of the old customs in favour of Christianity is brewing. And the great mass of the people sympathise with the missionaries. They want enlightenment and full freedom, though by freedom they understand only freedom from subjection to the priests. On that account everyone would be pleased to see many white people in the country though a minority think that the whites are come in pursuit of money. (Mohr notes in parenthesis - how could they gain advantage for themselves out of what they are doing?) Only the catechists do not equate 'being white' with 'having money'. The Akims have many requirements which can only be obtained with money, and for that on the whole they have to work for the whites. It will be easier for the mission when the government starts to develops road and water transport in Akim. The Begoro people are dissatisfied that payment for building has stopped - they think employment of that kind should have gone on. The Christians are not interested in coffee planting - that would take too long before it brought in any returns. The Akim custom is to go off and trade as soon as one has a few thaler. Many of the Christians have said to Mohr that previously they had lost their money through drinking spirits and through fetish priests - and that they became Christians because they knew that the Christians would not be molested (presumably by the latter). With most of the people who become Christians it is not out of hunger and thirst for the word of god or the longing for inner peace, but because they need political peace and they want to participate in the benefits of Christianity. He asked one of the elders why he thought the missionaries were preaching, and his reply was that they intended to found a large new town, in order to get glory and honour therefrom. In fact they are all the while battling against the idea that the Christian community is politically separate from Begoro town. ‘We tell our people all the time to recognise the fact that they are subjects of the political authority and only to withdraw themselves from heathen practices.’ Not only in Begoro but also at the foot of the hills it is very rarely that one comes across a deep feeling of the guilt of sin, and a sense of a man's being worthy for damnation. Mostly people have to be taken by the hand and lead to the admission 'I am a sinner'. On the whole people admit readily to whatever one accuses them of in preaching, and, when one goes through the history of the Son of God who died for the sins of the world and has risen again in order to bring salvation to everyone you often hear them say ‘Waye ade ama yen ampa' i.e. 'He has truly done a lot for us'. But does one hear someone say 'So what should I do to become holy?' (However the Holy Ghost is at work as well) They are preparing the first baptismal candidates in Fankyeneko, about 12 of them. Few were actually there at his last visit, some had gone to Accra, others to other places. One of the baptismal candidates is the head of a numerous band of relatives and has assured Mohr that should a catechist be stationed at Fankyeneko they will most of them become Christians. In the Begoro school the boys have taken four weeks out of the last two months as holidays, some to collect snails, and others to go fishing. On Mohr expostulating with them most of them said they would not attend school any more unless they were given clothes. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.30.XVIII..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-01.30 - Ghana 1878: D-01.30.XVIII. - Begoro Title A name given to the resource Report from Mohr to Basel on the Attitudes of the People of Begori and the Surroundig Villages 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: 15.08.1878 Proper date: 15.08.1878 Description An account of the resource The part of this report concerning the first baptisms in Fankyeneko is printed in Heidenbote 1879 pp9-10. They are having much difficulty getting pupils for the Begoro school. At the end of June he held an examination for the 7 boys and 1 girl who had been attending, and the results were satisfactory. But when they tried to reopen in August no children came, and the elders said no children should attend unless they were given clothes. Mohr suggested as a compromise a gift at Christmas of simple 'country clothes' to children who had attended assiduously. As a result of this there are now 6 boy pupils, and 1 girl. Mohr feels that people are no to be criticised too severely - the fetish priests, warning about the danger of death if a child went to the school is worrying parents still. The chief has sent his eldest son to Mohr as a houseboy. But the elders apparently felt it was Mohr personally who was cheating their children out of their due presents of clothes. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.30.XVIII..233 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-01.30 - Ghana 1878: D-01.30.XVIII. - Begoro Title A name given to the resource Quarterly Report for the Second Quarter of 1878 from Mohr 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: 01.11.1878 Proper date: 01.11.1878 Description An account of the resource Application for authorisation to spend £45 on building a catechist' house in Fankyeneko and 36 dollars on the purchase of land. (Full financial details not noted). Their presentation of the application includes the point that they wish to pay the local Christians if they help with the building, since they are all either in debt, or have relatives whom they want to get out of pawn. One has an old father pawned to a rich man Begoro (presumably - 'here') for 36 dollars, another while another is heavily in debt through having to pay the head-tax for his wife. In a subscript Buhl argues that they should pay only 20 thalers for the land, because Missionary Buck has paid 25 dollars for the land in Obomosu, and 16 dollars for the land in Asiakwa. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.30.XVIII..230 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.30 - Ghana 1878: D-01.30.XVIII. - Begoro Title A name given to the resource Station's 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: 29.12.1878 Date late: 31.12.1878 Proper date: 29.12.1878-31.12.1878 Description An account of the resource Part of this report is printed as an annex to the 1879 Annual Report (pp 66-70). Statistics - there are 12 Christians' houses on the mission land at Kibi, and 14 at Kukurantumi. Asiakwa, Kwabeng and Asunafo-Abomosu are listed as established outstations, in Asiakwa and Asunafo-Abomosu the mission owns land, and in the latter the community have already built a chapel. In Kibi only one person was excluded in the year, 4 temporarily suspended from Communion, and 1 excluded Christian re-accepted. He remarks about the 14 Christian marriages that few have any idea of the way Christians should live together in marriage, nor have many much understanding of Christian concepts of the upbringing of children. In discussing the impact of the fact that husband and wife have separate property, Buck writes that he could give two examples of husbands borrowing at large interest sums which the wives could have made available to them. He looks forward, however, to more and more members of converts families following the first converts onto the station apparently with some hope of success. He is refusing to move in response to the Kibi community's request for funds to build a new chapel until they themselves say how much they are prepared to contribute. Eight school continues teaching reading and writing. Street preaching in Kibi is held more rarely and instead there is a fix Sunday afternoon catechising of the community. The relationship with the King has changed to the extent that though Buck thinks his fundamental antagonism has not changed towards the Christians, his attitude to individuals is very friendly, and the result of this is that, for example, a number of Christians have not in fact moved out onto the station as they should. When Buck first went to Kibi the rest of the people despised the Christians as ex-slaves - they now respect them rather more, and that partly because Buck took steps to stop the Christians from taking great offence at every little instance of friction between town and mission. Since August Buck himself has carried on his contacts with the Okyenhene in a friendly enough way, but at 3rd hand. This was because whenever Buck went to see him about a problem, the session was dragged out with excuses and annoyances. Buck in the end said he would no longer visit the Okyenhene unless the latter returned his visits. At the same time he told him that of all the chiefs on the Gold Coast he was the only one opposed to the Mission - this, Buck thinks still rankles. Describing and justifying his stand, Buck writes that he would no quarrel with the assertion that at times he has acted strongly, not only to the Okyenhene and the Christians, but also towards other hostile chiefs. He has always been careful, however, to offer them no weakness through which they could attack the Christians, and, especially since the court case in Accra at the end of 1877 it is necessary for the European to dominate - if you show fear, or indecision, then the game is lost once and for all. Commenting further on the problem of strife between the Christians, Buck points out that it was not to be wondered at - hardly any older members of the community are present in it, and during the year 70 members joined, most were ex—slaves with their servile, jealous and rancourous attitudes. In September the position was aided by a decision promulgated by Buck and the presbyters that any parties found in open dispute on the streets would each be fined 2/- . This was never invoked, as its results were to bring disputes before the presbyters or Buck himself. Copper coins are now in use. Buck has tried to persuade the members to make themselves a living farming, but it goes slowly - some have started to clear coffee plantations, but the changes in the organisation of the Basel Mission agricultural work at Akropong have caused suspicion to spread, and they have not gone on with the work over the last part of the year. Outstations Apapam – this place needs a catechist otherwise, although alternately at weekends the members visit Kibi, and a catechist or teacher visits Apapam, without a resident presence instruction does not go forward. Kukurantumi - slaves who run away from their masters anywhere in Aklm or Kwahu come to the mission station at Kukurantumi, and a good proportion find there not only bodily but spiritual freedom also. The community is primarily recruited from among such people. At the moment there are 20 such people on the station who visit services without even having become catechumens. It says a lot for the ‘free' local Christians that they not only tolerate such people on the station, but are also learning to love them as brothers. He is also impressed by the way that Kukurantumi Christians are bringing in boys from the surrounding area and sending them to school, giving them their food and other necessary support. He regrets in passing that Kukurantumi is not the main station. The hill there is the highest point in the plain, and could be cleared and something made of it. Also there is no lack of food. In Kibi hunger reigns, and anyone who has seen the Berem swamps will not be surprised to learn that no European has been able to survive long in Kibi. Asiakwa - the community is very much prepared to be led by Cat. Mullings. He in turn works zealously, though is too anxious about the attitudes of the local chief and the people. Only three members of the community are independent, the rest are all dependent of heathen masters or relatives. Kwabeng - settled partly because they needed a station between Kibi and Abomosu. The direct way from Kibi to Abomosu through Tumfa is too swampy to be used in any months but February and March. Cat. Meyer contracted debts in the mulatto way at his wedding during the years and is finding things very tight on his catechist's salary. Abomosu - (Benoni, to which Buck refers in his first sentence on Abomosu is a town east of Johannesburg). 4 of the community are Wesleyans. The evangelist Imm. Boakye has been installed in Abomosu, though in fact two men are needed, one to care for the community, and the other to run the school. Buck remarks that if you want to read or write, you must go into the tiny room which you have been given to sleep in when you visit Abomosu. It is a very poor congregation – they cannot gather small contributions to pay for benches etc. simply because the people do not have money, and even if the missionaries encourate them to farm, still they will be poor for several years till this activity begins to bear fruit. The community consists mainly of people dependent on their families - young pawns and slaves. There is however an (independent presumably) man as presbyter, with many members of his family in the church also. 3 children, his mother, and two of his brothers. (Abraham Bugyei). He notes finally the size of the Abomosu congregation, points out that it is partly composed of people from Asunafo, which will in its own time want to ask for a teacher. At the end of the report is a section devoted to preaching to the heathen. It is mostly devoted to Buck's concept of how the Akim mission can best develop. The preaching journeys were carried on conscientiously, and Buck obviously had a high opinion of his subordinate activities in this field, instancing the problems of travelling in Akim as evidence of their willingness. Apedwa, Tumfa, Apapam, Apinamang and the Kibi-Banso-Kwabeng-Asunafo-Abomosu road were most visited. Apedwa and Apapam offer an opportunity for achievement, and both ask repeatedly and urgently for a teacher. Banco shows 'traces of life' and Tumfa always offers a group of enthusiastic hearers. You get the general impression that Christianity has begun to be popular, and is no longer something half-understood. One factor of importance is that an elder of the Kibi community, Salerno Botwe, is taking every opportunity to spread the news of the gospel, but privately, so that for a long time Buck did not realise he was doing this. One problem is that many Akims do not understand an Akwapim speaking. 3 or four new men are needed - another for Asiakwa, 2 for Abomosu/Asunafo, and one for Apapam, though it is true that Apapam could be served by Imm. Boakye from Abomosu. ‘Dwabang ought to be settled too (Buck sees its potential rise out of its geographical importance quite clearly) - he would nominate for this Deacon Date, whom he says could be put into such a place to work independently with absolute trust placed in him - and European missionaries travelling through Dwabeng would find him a pleasant and considerate host. The fact that the Mission is making no grant towards building the catechist's houses at Asiakwa and Abomosu is somewhat of a hindrance to the development of the mission. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.30.XVII..222 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-01.30 - Ghana 1878: D-01.30.XVII. - Kjebi Title A name given to the resource Buck's Report for the Year 1878 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: 02.01.1879 Proper date: 02.01.1879 Description An account of the resource The boarding school in Kibi in a good condition, little missing of lessons, e.g. progress satisfactory in all but arithmetic, the teachers working conscientiously, with one or two reservations stated about the two Akim teachers. Date is praised very highly for his efforts in leading the school. Anoba has succeeded very well in the training of singing, but singing is much loved by the boys. Average number of pupils in the year - 49. The elementary schools on the other stations have not gone so well - the major problem being parents' desire to see their children in a school for which there is some payment. (The remark about heathen boys supported in the Kukurantumi school by members of the community is repeated tout court). Over Kibi free-pupils (day-pupils) Buck remarks that the children of the community are mostly too young for school, and the children of the town are mostly the property of the Okyenhene, and therefore school attendance is impossible for them. In Asiakwa the chief will not allow boys to go to school - a slave of the chief's brought a boy for school, but was forbidden to send him by the chief, and when the boy went anyway he (the boy) was put in the block. Buck writes if only the English Government would show some evidence of its power, but as it is to cite English law in Akim is to invite derision. In Kwabeng only 2 pupils go to the school - Buck made the mistake there of dealing only with the chief in negotiations about the opening of the school, and when the school was ready to start and the chief invited the promised boys from his elders they replied that since he had not consulted them about the school they would send no boys. Buck remarks - 'Real Social Democratic talk’. There are boys in Akurofufu ond Awenare who would attend the Kwabeng school if they were given their food. The people in Abomosu are very anxious for education. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.30.XVII..223 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-01.30 - Ghana 1878: D-01.30.XVII. - Kjebi Title A name given to the resource Buck's Report on the Akim Schools in 1878 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: 31.12.1878 Proper date: 31.12.1878 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.30.XVII..224 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-01.30 - Ghana 1878: D-01.30.XVII. - Kjebi Title A name given to the resource Date's Report on the School in the Year 1878 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: 02.01.1879 Proper date: 02.01.1879 Description An account of the resource 30 people joined the community in 1878, 17 from Kukurantumi itself, and 15 (including children) being freed slaves from the interior. Members of the congregation earn their living by hunting, making palm-oil, the produce of their farms, and-trade. The farmers here, especially the Christians, get but very few or seldom buyers therefore although they get more victuals they are poor in other substances of living. A case study of a Crepe woman called Adsotowu from Eyikpa, 2 days' journey from Ho, who took the baptismal name Rachel. Captured in 1869, brought to Juaben, from where she was taken into the colony by her master (1874), claimed her freedom, choosing to live on the mission premises, where she could live safe and peaceably rather than try to return to her own country - she did not know the way. She was baptised after some time (Koranteng earlier states that ex-slaves asked for baptism after hearing the gospel for 2 or 3 years). Soon after a Crepe man arrived in Kukurantumi trading, she asked him to contact her parents, and four months after a brother of hers arrived, begging her to come with him to greet her mother before her death, having as sign of his trustworthiness an ivory arm-ring of her mother. Rachel made the brother swear to support her if she was asked to do something which was against her vows as a Christian, which he did. She resisted his somewhat angry urging to move from Kukurantumi before Koranteng had written her an introduction to the Bremen Missionaries, Koranteng being out of writing paper at the time. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.30.XVII..226 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-01.30 - Ghana 1878: D-01.30.XVII. - Kjebi Title A name given to the resource Koranteng's Report for 1878 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: 25.01.1878 Proper date: 25.01.1878 Description An account of the resource The ‘peace’ between Okyenhene and Christians was, in detail, a request by Buck to the Okyenhene that for 6 months he be allowed to learn the situation before being made responsible for the deeds and statements of the Christians, and on the other hand the- 'radical step' of warning the Christians that if they were heard insulting the Okyenhene Buck would not do anything to defend them. Asiakwa - purchase negotiations stuck at the local elders wanting 56 dollars for 6 acres, and Buck offering 12. In this town people are not happy that local school pupils do not get the same support as pupils in Kibi. Boakye is achieving things in Abomosu -- he reads and writes Twi and Ga. A journey has just been undertaken through Apinamang, Asaman and Akem Akropong by Cat. Meyer - he reports a warm reception only in Asamang. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.30.XVII..218 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-01.30 - Ghana 1878: D-01.30.XVII. - Kjebi Title A name given to the resource Buck to Basel Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 23.09.1878 Proper date: 23.09.1878 Description An account of the resource Reports that though after warning the two Akim teachers were more regular with their teaching, their family affairs still take up much too much of their time. Akims should be posted away from Akim. Also they use the stick too much s sometimes beating the whole class, during arithmetic lessons especially. He remarks too that the whole school - with one or two exceptions - is composed of slave boys, and seems rather pessimistic of achieving much with such an intake. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.30.XVII..219 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-01.30 - Ghana 1878: D-01.30.XVII. - Kjebi Title A name given to the resource Buck'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: 25.09.1878 Proper date: 25.09.1878 Description An account of the resource The report is on tie Boarding School, and in this case intended for publication: The boys do not play actively as boys in Europe do, but they love the singing they learn with Catechist Aneba. They go to the hand work with a will (mostly cleaning the compound and farming) and are visibly a very healthy group, especially when compared with the average disease-ridden heathen boy, Concerning the ‘inner life’ of the boarding school, he writes that you must not judge the place by European standard. ‘{They come) out of the deepest swamps of heathenism and sin; in their impressionable years they have seen nothing but the fruits of heathenism, envy and brawls, conflicts and hatred and all sorts of filth, and have heard nothing but the most shameful words, nothing but scolding and insults and the master having no idea of mother love. 'They have never heard the sweet word of a mother’. Whoever wants to make a true appraisal of an African Boarding School must decide which is better: that, or a German borstal. It can be demonstrated however that the boys are attracted to Christian truth those who were baptised recently had a better grasp of their baptismal instruction when all the candidates were examined, than their adult counterparts. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.30.XVII..220 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-01.30 - Ghana 1878: D-01.30.XVII. - Kjebi Title A name given to the resource Buck's Report for the Third Quarter of 1878 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 23.09.1878 Proper date: 23.09.1878 Description An account of the resource Marriages were blessed in the course of the year. There were also baptisms in June, one of which was of an elderly slave and his wife. He had come free from Kibi in 1875, was baptised Aaron. One and a half months after his baptism he died after a stroke, having said 'in case the Lord calls me by this sickness I go in peace and in joy; for I had lived almost my whole lifetime a slave and heathen, but now the Lord has in his mercy received me amongst his children and I have the hope that he will take me into his rest.' He had suffered problems because of arrogance among the young men Christians, but these are now passed. Catechumens often quit the town to trade and cannot be instructed. Dwaben people are building 4 towns between Akwapim and Akim, 4-5 hours from Kukurantumi. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.30.XVII..221 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-01.30 - Ghana 1878: D-01.30.XVII. - Kjebi Title A name given to the resource Koranteng's Report of the First Half of 1878 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: 29.01.1879 Proper date: 29.01.1879 Description An account of the resource A part of this report is printed as an appendix to the 1879 Annual Report of the Basel Mission. Buss in his journey to Salaga purchased a horse and some cattle for Abetifi - no information is offered as to their survival. The church was consecrated and the first baptisms celebrated at Whitsun 1878. Discussing the people baptised Ramseyer says he has never seen people so serious at their baptismal service. Certainly some of them have caused the missionaries anxiety through their restricted knowledge, and have needed directions and warnings to keep them on the right lines, nevertheless they are willing and obedient and intend to be Christians in the true sense of the word. He offers an example of the sort of difficulty which has arisen - one of the baptised men Benjamin Osee announced to Ramseyer that he had sent his wife away (Ramseyer explains that the sign of this is throwing white earth onto the wife's foot, or making a white-earth streak on her back). The trouble was that although his wife, who was a heathen, wanted to have their young child baptised her mother did not and the wife and he had argued fiercely about the matter, at the end of which he had taken the advice of a heathen woman bystander and sent the wife away. Ramseyer explained to him that the Christian loves his wife and mother-in-law and in spite of the difficulties prays that God will bring them to wanting to have the child baptised, and advised him to go and sort things out. This he did after a few days, and some months later the mother in law was content to see the child baptised, this made a good impression on the families who saw thereby that the mission stood on the side of what they saw was right in the situation. This same woman is the mother of the most earnest of the new Christians, (Nathaniel) and almost a year ago sent her youngest daughter into the service of the missionaries. But she will not let her third child become a Christian (this is Benjamin Osee's wife) since if she does there, will be no-one to perform the customs for her when she dies. After the first baptisms they had expected to find themselves with a class of three baptismal candidates, but it turned out that two of the people involved thought that at baptism their debts would be. Paid. Only one went on with a long course of baptismal instruction and was baptised on 20th October, Daniel Dente. A slave born in the house and consecrated to Dente at an early age. His master was opposed to his baptism until he saw that the Christians are not outside the traditional law providing it is not in opposition to Christianity. Services on the station on Sunday morning are not well attended by people from the town - but they are at their farms. In the evening there is usually about 300 people at the evening service held under a great tree in the main street. They listen very attentively, and it was through street preaching that the five baptismal candidates were brought into the church. He reports a case which appears to represent Dente reactions to the Christians. One of them, Johannes Ata had been helped by Missionary Werner several months ago to pay a debt. He had incurred it several years before living in Kibi. In October Ata’s brother came to Abetifi from Krakye - he seems to be the right hand man of the fetish priest there - and therefore his financial position is sound. For several weeks nothing happened, and then the brother explained to Johannes that he would pay the debt if he gave up being a Christian. The latter refused although this was discussed several times, and in the end the brother threatened to shoot him if he ever came into the town. The missionaries persuaded him not to flee to Akira, and complained about the behaviour to the Chief, but it seemed that the man had such power in Abetifi and was so angry everyone was afraid of him. In the end little trouble occurred only on Christmas day, when the Christians were going out of the station to the town dressed in the clothes which they had obtained for themselves. He rushed on them - one was slapped in the face, another had his hat destroyed. The Christians returned to the station, the missionaries complained to the chief, and the man promised not to molest his brother or the Christians again. In 28 days of preaching journeys the missionaries have travelled through the whole of Kwahu, and many of the main towns have been visited 6-8 times. Kwahu has 5 real towns, 6 large villages, 12 little villages, as well as a number of hamlets. They have failed to visit only one of the little villages Peteko on the other side of the Afram, 5-6 hours from Abetifi, and the seat of the well-known fetish Fofie - a very influential fetish to whom each year a great number of Kwahus make pilgrimage (Ramseyer has been using the horse now that it has got acclimatised to lighten the burden of the travel). Ramseyer describes a journey to the fetish Buruku - the tall rock pillar in Kwahu, in early November. The way led through the village of Bakuruwa (nearby is a beautiful waterfall called Ko Abena), Tafo (where they avoided revealing the purpose of their journey, since the Buruku priest lived in that village) and afterwards the Ahenase way branched from the track they were on. They reached a strongly flowing stream, and then after 2-3 minutes the plantation of the slaves of Buruku. Ramseyer describes these as being from the interior, living in a hamlet of 10-12 houses, He explained to them that it was not necessary for missionaries to ask permission to go to places and there seems to have been no opposition to his visit among these few villages, although Ramseyer later heard that the priest in Tafo had fined them a sheep for allowing him to go up to the rock face. From the village the rock face was 4 hour of tough climbing away – Ramseyer reckons the slope at 50°. They first visited it by moonlight on the night of their arrival in case by morning some messenger from Tafo should have come to prevent them. The only signs he saw of sacrifices etc. under the rock were the actual sacrificial rock with an overhang acting as a roof, and the yellow splashes of eggs. By day at this level the view was hemmed in by trees. The rock itself was too vertical to be climbed. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.30.XIX..258 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-01.30 - Ghana 1878: D-01.30.XIX. - Abetifi Title A name given to the resource Annual Report for the Station Abetifi for the Year 1878 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: 04.02.1879 Proper date: 04.02.1879 Description An account of the resource The school was opened on 1st July with Emmanuel Dako as teacher. In the first month the women supplying the food were paid 1/6 -.this was too little and it has been raised to 2/-. The school opened with 12 pupils, and they were joined by another after a short while, but greatly to the missionaries' surprise after 2 months 5 left. Perhaps the teacher was too strict with them and perhaps too the school did not come up to their expectations as a place where food and clothing was provided, since it involved work with the head and the hands. Shortly after Christmas they made a journey around the main Kwahu towns to recruit more boys for the school. They seem to have been well received everywhere (Aduamoa, Obo, Obomeng, Mpraeso, Bepong, Sakraka, Taro), with the possible exception of the first place where the chief sent to say he was too sick to see them. In Obomeng a custom was stopped in order to let Werner preach. Obo promised 4 boys and so did Mpraeso: both those places seem to have kept their word. Tafo promised but no boys have arrived. Little emerges as to the life of the school. At Christmas the boys received a new suit of clothes, and there was a Christmas tree with presents from friends in Berne. Often in the evening when you visit the boys' quarter you find them at prayer. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.30.XIX..260 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-01.30 - Ghana 1878: D-01.30.XIX. - Abetifi Title A name given to the resource Werner's Annual Report on the Boys 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: 31.05.1878 Proper date: 31.05.1878 Description An account of the resource Werner has a debt of £46, though at the same time he possesses cattle to the value of £11 (sheep that is). Weimer applies for £17 - both blame the heavy demands on their clothing of the building period, though Eisenschmid adds in a subscript that bachelor housekeeping is always more expensive than on a station where there is a wife to keep things under control. (In Heidenbote 1878 pp75f there is an article by Mrs Werner on the consecration of the church in Abetifi dated 16 Jun 78. The manuscript appears to have been printed as a whole. In Heidenbote there is too an engraving purposing to show the chapel and the mission house - it would appear that the mission-house was completely of its present size at this stage.) Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.30.XIX..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-01.30 - Ghana 1878: D-01.30.XIX. - Abetifi Title A name given to the resource Stations 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: 26.06.1878 Proper date: 26.06.1878 Description An account of the resource Forwards a French report to the people in Neuchatel. The English Regime have informed him that they are not prepared to give him a letter of recommendation to the Asantehene - but he is worried by the report of a Jesuit from Strassburg having visited Kumasi. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.30.XIX..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-01.30 - Ghana 1878: D-01.30.XIX. - Abetifi Title A name given to the resource Ramseyer 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: 08.08.1878 Proper date: 08.08.1878 Description An account of the resource This letter accompanies a sketch he has made of the southerly aspect of the Abetifi station. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.30.XIX..247 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-01.30 - Ghana 1878: D-01.30.XIX. - Abetifi Title A name given to the resource Ramseyer 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: 28.08.1878 Proper date: 28.08.1878 Description An account of the resource The letter to the Basel Conmittee is an appeal to be allowed to visit Kumasi with the end in view of establishing a Basel station there. His reason for writing at that moment seems to be alarm at the prospect of a Catholic station being set up. Bonnat told him that when he had approached the Holy Ghost fathers they had told him that they could not contemplate a Kumasi mission, at that time, but perhaps again in 2-3 years when Bonnat himself was in the country they might, and that was 3 years ago. He feels that his period of captivity was a call to him personally to work in Kumasi, and gives the Basel Mission the best right of any society to work there. Equally once let, the Roman Catholic mission get established and it will become much more difficult for the Basel Mission to get started. He also thinks he could act as peacemaker between Asante and Kwahu. Several Kwahus have approached him in this connection. His wife agrees that they should accept the parting for at most 3-4 weeks, especially as the journey can now be undertaken with no risk at all. He also seems to have a consciousness that financial difficulties are worrying the Basel Committee, saying that one storey swish built house with four rooms would be adequate as a start, and that an actual station in Kumasi would be good from the aspect of getting collections in the supporting churches. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.30.XIX..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-01.30 - Ghana 1878: D-01.30.XIX. - Abetifi Title A name given to the resource Ramseyer 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: 16.07.1878 Proper date: 16.07.1878 Description An account of the resource Prince Ansah communicates the visit of Rev Mr Gommenginger to Kumasi - he did not reveal the intentions of the Roman Catholic missionaries in regard to the place. Prince Ansah thinks, (though he offers no reasons for this) that now is the time to establish a mission in Kumasi. He reports on the situation vis-a-vis Gyaman – Berekum has been involved in a little fight with the Gyaman which nearly led to a general war. He himself set out for Kumasi when he heard the rumour of an Asante-Gyaman war to add his voice to the peace party in Kumas, taking with him (He writes as if he were the head of the expedition, and there is no hint as to whether it was under someone else's patronage), Dane C. Nielsen, whom he sent'to Bonduku. But the latest news is that he has died in Bonduku and that the king of Gyaman treated him badly (He had with him a Mr. Huyiecoper as interpreter). Another complication is that a dissident chief is being helped by the king of Gyaman to invade Nquaransah, 'a province of Asante’. War pressures are therefore growing in Kumasi. He asks Ramseyer to intercede with the Kwahus to live at peace with the Asantis, they are not letting Asantis pass at the moment, though he intends to send this letter via Agogo, Asamoah’s village’. In a postscript he again asks Ramseyer to come, his influence so that the road may be opened so that Ansah may be able to visit Abetifis. And also asks Ramseyer to procure him a horse the roads from Salaga to Asante are closed too. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.30.XIX..249 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-01.30 - Ghana 1878: D-01.30.XIX. - Abetifi Title A name given to the resource Letter from Prince Ansah to Ramseyer 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: 28.08.1878 Proper date: 28.08.1878 Description An account of the resource In a ‘votum' on the question of whether to work towards a Kumasi mission or not Weimer argues that it would reduce the danger that war with Asante would break out and the station be devastated. He also adds as a current advantage that a number of their workers are ready to go to Kumasi. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.30.XIX..250 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-01.30 - Ghana 1878: D-01.30.XIX. - Abetifi Title A name given to the resource Weimer to Basel