346 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: February 1887 Proper date: February 1887 Description An account of the resource The report on the persecutions of December 1886 is largely printed in the 1887 Annual Report pp 86ff. Additional points: The fetish priest involved in the early investigation of the theft was called Akwasiwa, and his fetish Tutu. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.45.IV..61 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.45 - Ghana 1886: D-01.45.IV. - Begoro Title A name given to the resource Mohr'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: 23.12.1886 Proper date: 23.12.1886 Description An account of the resource From it it appears that the Christians beaten up on December 15th were from Begoro - the missionaries' carriers. Ata was very angry when the missionaries went to complain about the incident, and told them he did not fear white men or black. The Begoro chief was apparently in Kibi because when he asked for the matter to be investigated Ata promised that he would do this. According to Rösler the Begoro chief exerted himself to try to moderate Ata's conduct - little else was done by any of the other chiefs in this direction. The Begoro chief in fact got involved in conflict with the Kibi chief on this account. In the plundering of the Christians' farms the school's coffee plantation was destroyed. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.45.IV..62 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.45 - Ghana 1886: D-01.45.IV. - Begoro Title A name given to the resource Rösler's Letter to the District Präses 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: 02.03.1886 Proper date: 02.03.1886 Description An account of the resource A report for the last quarter of 1885 and for the Boy’s Boarding School over the course of the whole year. His big fever followed on a preaching trip to Abene end Akankawaase. At Christmas the Abetifi church was filled with a congregation both of Christians and heathen. In a summary about his feelings over the situation, as a whole he remarks that it is not without its dangers, and specifically cites the general unchastity. Also he lays great stress on the equality of Christ's love, citing not only the black and white dichotomy, but also gifted and ungifted, pleasant and the forlorn. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.45.V..78 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.45 - Ghana 1886: D-01.45.V. - Abetifi Title A name given to the resource Tschopp to Basel Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 06.04.1886 Proper date: 06.04.1886 Description An account of the resource Report of his first months on the Gold Coast (he first arrived in Abetifi early in December). He had travelled from Akropong to Abetifi with no-one among his attendants able to speak English. And in Abetifi he thinks, apart from the Catechists no-one speaks English. Shortly after his arrival his great friend, with whom he had been for 8 years in the Mission House and as a soldier, died (He does not give the name). Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.45.V..79 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.45 - Ghana 1886: D-01.45.V. - Abetifi Title A name given to the resource Sitzler 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: 14.04.1886 Proper date: 14.04.1886 Description An account of the resource Since Dilger's leaving he has been especially busy with people coming to the station - some bring gifts of yams, rice, maize, pepper, groundnuts, onions, hens and eggs - others come with problems. The two most persistent of the latter are the request to be employed as a carrier – often 4 or 5 will come in a short time, one after the other with this request. There are to the requests for loans - in one day he was troubled by 5 people who together wanted £10 in loans. It is difficult to send such people away, especially when they have a child living with the missionaries as servants. Of the 7 ex-students who did not return to the Boarding School at the beginning of the year 3 or 4 have said clearly that they want to be Christians but do not want to attend the school (they are attending services regularly on the station). There is the addional information that two of the non-returned schoolboys had indeed been sold, while one was withheld since his relatives could not raise a loan of £4 from the missionaries. There is a subscript by Paul Steiner that Tschopp must use the Word ‘Knaben’ and not 'Buben’ when talking about boys in the school and in his services. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.45.V..80 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.45 - Ghana 1886: D-01.45.V. - Abetifi Title A name given to the resource Tschopp to Basel: Report for the First Quarter of 1886 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: 12.07.1886 Proper date: 12.07.1886 Description An account of the resource Offers as the main explanations for the non-return of the 7 boys after the Christmas holidays as people not understanding the worth of the school, and not wanting their sons to become Christians. He is especially sad about 2 of the non-returned – they had endeared themselves to him by their quiet ways, and had both bought Twi bibles. The two pupils from Abetifi newly transferred to the Middle School in Begoro were Jakob Muni and Imm. Adakwa. He mentions a preaching journey to Nkwatia, Bepong, Mpraeso, Obomeng, Obo, Odumase, Aduammoa - large congregations gathered on the whole. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.45.V..81 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.45 - Ghana 1886: D-01.45.V. - Abetifi Title A name given to the resource Tschopp to Basel: Report fon the School in the First Half Year 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: 29.07.1886 Proper date: 29.07.1886 Description An account of the resource He reports extensive repairs needed by the Mission house at ground level, especially substitution of stone fundaments for the heavily damaged wooden balks used by the first builders. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.45.V..82 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.45 - Ghana 1886: D-01.45.V. - Abetifi Title A name given to the resource Sitzler to Basel: Report on the Second Quarter of the Year 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: 02.09.1886 Proper date: 02.09.1886 Description An account of the resource Mostly a letter concerned with his personal situation and the history of illnesses suffered by him and his wife since their return to the Coast. However, he makes two points about the way their having servants in fact exacerbated their difficulties - their duty is to teach them regular work, and the Asantes and Kwahus are the worst lyers of all. He has heard a proverb ‘When a man stops lying, he must be ill'. The Abetifi station is giving him much trouble, partly because the problems there are such that he has never before met Also Dilger left the accounts in a dreadful mess, and Schmid is grateful that Eisenschmid took so much loving care over teaching him about the running of a mission station in his early years on the Gold Coast. There is a 70 year old man who had been driven out of house and home by the priests of his village, although he was the village headman. He arrived naked in Bepong, where a Christian has taken him in and fed and clothed him. Schmid made a contribution of 5/- to the costs. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.45.V..83 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.45 - Ghana 1886: D-01.45.V. - Abetifi Title A name given to the resource Schmid 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: 23.09.1886 Proper date: 23.09.1886 Description An account of the resource This letter is partly printed in Heidenbote 1887 p2f. Schmid mentions rice as especially the crop of Mpraeso, Nkwatia and Bepong. There are weather statistics - temperature and rainfall for the months June-September 1886. They have experienced great difficulty getting any of the few carpenters to come and work on the repairing of roofs. They are having to pay Fr.12.30 for the carriage of a 55-60lb load from the coast. In 6 1/2 years residence in Akwapim Schmid saw not a single weaver. You see little printed calico in Kwahu – more Grey Bast. The Ga pots with which he compares Mpraeso were from Shai. In their dealings with the Abetifi chief one of the points which he wanted the missionaries to concede was that for 6 month no-one but his own people should be sent to the coast to fetch loads for the missinaries. He stresses the contrast with Akwapim rather more strongly in the manuscript than appears in the printed version. He has been helping in cases of genuine need – he has handed out a total of 175 Francs in return for promises of future work on the station or in carrying loads from the coast. Reporting on the Abetifi community Schmid says that in most cases their spiritual life is not above zero yet. They have joined the Christian community to be free of the fetish priests rather than because of the appeal of the new religion - their disinterest in worship etc. showw this. Even the elder, Johannes Ata, only came back in August from a trading journey to Krakye and Salaga which had lasted 6 months. On his return he found two of his children dead. The first had actually had the mark of its baptism wiped off by a fetish priest in a public ceremony - the mother was a divorced wife - and when she wanted the missionaries to bury the child they would not. The other child - whose mother is the current wife but a heathen and perhaps an excluded Christian - was taken off to a fetish at Mpraeao apparently so that the missionaries would not know about this. On his return Ata said that he would never travel again. No minutes of the sittings of the Presbyters were to be found on his arrival. Subjects discussed in these meetings since his arrival were (inter al) (1) The revival of Sunday School in view of the fact that the majority of the adults on the station were illiterate – including the elders themselves. (2) The resting of mission land for farming (3) The keeping proper records of the Christian community. By no means all of the Christians were living on the station. About Bepong he reports on the fining of a man by the Fetish priest of Nkwatia. It looks as if this was the leader of the Bepong Christians. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.45.V..84 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.45 - Ghana 1886: D-01.45.V. - Abetifi Title A name given to the resource Schmid 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: 18.10.1886 Proper date: 18.10.1886 Description An account of the resource This report is printed in Heidenbote 1887 pp67ff. The printed version is a case study in relations between the mission and slavery in Kwahu before the Protectorate was declared. It also includes an exchange rate of 18 dollars to 90 Francs. Schmid mentions three proverbs - one is about the man who having been bitten by a snake now fears the earthworm. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.45.V..85 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.45 - Ghana 1886: D-01.45.V. - Abetifi Title A name given to the resource Schmid to Basel Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 06.11.1886 Proper date: 06.11.1886 Description An account of the resource Describing the clothing in which Christians attend street-preaching. One was barefoot, bare-headed wearing only a blue and white striped cloth from Selaga, another wore a length of European cloth and a European hat: another wore with his cloth a straw cap from Lagos and a pair of sandals from Salaga or here, another wore trousers, jacket, coat, hat and shoes (although no socks or shirt) and had an umbrella, another with another selection of European clothes. Tschopp remarks that the way into Abetifi leads past some half-finished huts that were being put up at the time of the visit of Inspector Praetorius. There are 'several' coffee plantations fruiting twice yearly. He describes the prohibition against shooting the apes along the path into the town as connected with the fact that it is near a cemetery. The Dente shrine has been re-roofed and whitewashed recently. Describing the scene at street-preaching he says you see 'several' men weaving down an alley-way, and while some houses are broken down, others have sleeping quarters with only three walls (a palm-leaf woven fence serves for the 4th wall at night); some have no window openings at all; there are some neatly painted with white earth outside, and red earth inside, with window shutters, and carpentered doors. Judging by his emphasis on the numbers of people working although it was Sunday he lay a lot of emphasis on the correct observance of Sunday. One of the forms of seating for people listening to the street preaching were two elephants’ jaw-bones. Painting of parts of the body seems to have been fairly common - children had blue red or white stripes on their faces or the upper parts of their bodies, apparently as decoration; adults wore red rid stripes on their breast or shoulder as signs of mourning; children were entirely covered with white for decoration but for some religious purpose. Children were to be seen wearing leather amulets around their necks, and especially the small ones had their hair full of all manner of cowries and other things as a protection against accidents and ill-luck. Clearly the quiet which was a notable part of street-preaching in Kwahu did not extent to the whole environment. He reports a varied respons to the preaching - some are still firmly convinced that their fetishes are real, others are sceptical and believe that what the missionaries say is the truth. In September they passed, after street preaching, a party sacrificing to Dente. Tschopp reports the petitions as including one against useless work, for strength and success in hunting, health. Upon the missionaries striking up conversation with the people they expressed a variety of reactions, including the suggestion that the missionaries should leave everyone to follow his own god, and they should leave the old people alone - they can have the children. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.45.V..86 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.45 - Ghana 1886: D-01.45.V. - Abetifi Title A name given to the resource Tschopp to Basel Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 10.12.1886 Proper date: 10.12.1886 Description An account of the resource Part I of this report concerns events in Adesawaase during the smallpox epidemic. It includes the information that there was a priest of Dente in Koforidua called Kwadwo Boadu - the Dente is described as 'imported from Krakye' and is linked with the Bepong community. The old man driven to Bepong was in fact Owu, ex-chief of Adesawaase. He had found himself there after being 'discovered’ by Kwadwo Boadua as the man who by magic had brought the small-pox to the village. He swore the king of Begoro's oath on the matter, but seems to have had little chance of turning the accusation aside. Kwadwo Boadu had said that a man and a woman had been guilty - as Schmid tells the story it sounds as if there was a time-lapse before the woman was discovered, and the discovery was taken (by the Begorohene presumably) as the condition of credence of the charge. A niece of Owu’s, Awo, was eventually declared to be guilty, and Owu then had to acquiesce in the matter. He and his niece and his brother Kwame Akwatia were all three banned to Agogo - the idea there was to remove them from the English protectorate, since if the colonial government heard about the matter it would take steps to rectify things. They were only escorted to Mpreaso, however, whence they went to Bepong, and Kwame Akwatia has been taken into a Christian home (by Abraham Sontim) and has announced himself as a catechumen. His knowledge is slight, but he holds fast to the idea that he wants to serve Jesus and serve no fetish. Twi further points in connection with this story are noteworthy. Kwame Akwatia had wives in several towns, but had never been regularly married. One of his places of residence had been the Akim Kotoku Boaru. Further in Adesawaase he had lodged with a fetish priestess called Kyerewa, who served a fetish called Kraba. The invitation which had brought Dente into the situation came from another fetish priestess Apea Korama who served Asare It was she who had identified the culprit as someone in the town but had not been able to identify the individual. Kwadwo Boadu had charged Fr. 270 for his services, but had accepted Fr. 135 when the villagers claimed they could not raise the higher amount. Another section of the report is devoted to the case of Johannes Afram, an excluded Christian of Mpraeso. Schmid writes that this case shows the need for care in exploring the motivation of the indigenous Christians - as if investigation of their motivation is a normal part of his approach especially when they are in the catechumenate. The case seems to have been one where more careful investigation would have doubted his seriousness altogether, for he committed adultery with no less than three women, two of them comparatively young members of Ph. Kwabi's household, one already betrothed to a younc Christian called Josef Apea, This all in spite of the fact that the husband of the first woman poisoned him and almost brought about his death. One point of possible anthropological interest is that after his serious illness Afram continued to have intimate relations with the wife of his poisoner, in spite of the fact that he had been forbidden to do so by the chief end elders. Whereon the husband'a mother swore an oath that Afram must have the woman (she hoped thereby to recover the money spent on the marriage), and when the husband tried to stop the loss of his wife by appealing to the elders to enforce their earlier decision, they said that the husband’s mother's oath had overruled their intervention. The last section of the report concerns marriage problems. There is no marriagable Christian girl among the Kwahus; marriage with Christian Akwapim or Akim girls does not occur. In the past special permission has been given (according to Schmid Eisenschmid wrote that this came from the Basel Committee) for Christian boys to marry heathen girls. This is not a situation out of which one can hope for much. 'The girls have a ferocious self-will and a power of abuse like a two-edged sword,' and there is not much hope that the husbands would show self-denying love, patience, meekness, easy temper, and thus bring peace to the household. Boys who have been to the Boarding School have a low reputation among both heathens and Christians. A particular marriage history is given to illustrate some of the difficulties. Benjamin Gyesaw, an Asante, was baptised in 1880, having learned carpentry during the building of the station. In 1881 he set out to marry a very young girl, a daughter of the second chief in Mpraeso. Gyesaw alienated her from her earlier betrothed, repayed him what he had spent on plus 50% satisfaction fee, and dashed a sheep to the fetish Amoa in Nkwatia, which was necessary because the girl had been given Amoa. Problems began to arise when there was apparently no issue to the marriage. They plagued each other and began to live apart fpr periods – she with her parents in Mpraeso, he on trading expeditions. She began to suspect of relations with another woman in Agogo which he visited often. The conflict increased - to prove the unfoundedness of his wife's charges that it was because of him that there were no children he fathered a child on an Abetifi woman - or at least she claimed that it was his child, but a statement of hers to that effect was not to be trusted – she was known as ‘Bird without a nest' to the people of Abetifi. Gyesaw was excluded - it then came to a battle between them in which both were wounded, and the wife returned to her parents in Mpraeso. The wife had for some time been a catechumen. When Schmid visited the family in Mpraeso he discovered to his consternation that Johnnnes Afram was the proposed new husband, and he fears that all his urging of moral considerations may prove powerless before the argument of Afram's money Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.45.V..87 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.45 - Ghana 1886: D-01.45.V. - Abetifi Title A name given to the resource Schmid to Basel Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 10.12.1886 Proper date: 10.12.1886 Description An account of the resource Six Christians have had to be excluded in the six months since he came to Abetifi - he is now not surprised that Brother Marquart resigned through despair, though he feels he should have done more to gain the advice of an experienced man. Brother Eisenschmid stays up long into the night to deal with his correspondence. Schmid also lists the places in which he has preached and in some of which he has stayed the night: Aduamoa, Odumase, Obo, Tweneduruase, Obomeng, Nkwatim, Bepong, Mpraeso, Askraka, Ntoso, Tafo, Bokuruwai, Amama, Pepease, Nkwatanang, Saden Kura, Sadae, Abene. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.45.V..88 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.45 - Ghana 1886: D-01.45.V. - Abetifi Title A name given to the resource Schmid 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/. Description An account of the resource Contains a list of pupils with home towns, ages etc. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.45.IV..69 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.45 - Ghana 1886: D-01.45.IV. - Begoro Title A name given to the resource Ofei's Report on the Kibi 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: 31.12.1886 Proper date: 31.12.1886 Description An account of the resource Describing his community of 37 he writes that some of them are emancipated slaves from Kwahu. But they only stop in Anyinam for two or three years, and then go on ’to the wilderness' (marginal comment by a missionary 'he means the coast') 'to join their fellows; so they are lost to the community. Other Christians are Kwahus. There are only two Anyinam natives in the community. 2 Anyinam people are catechumen, two ex-slaves also, and some children. Of his 8 pupils in the community school, 3 had graduated to the Kibi school. Kwabeng - most of the children of the Christians are not baptised because the mothers are still heathen and will not allow it. Nevertheless there are 15-l7 scholars in Khabeng. He is well contented with the people in Asunafo. They work well together. 12-24 children in the community school. Both in Tumfa and Akropong there were exclusions for adultery. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.45.IV..71 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.45 - Ghana 1886: D-01.45.IV. - Begoro Title A name given to the resource Anora's Report on the Anyinam District in 1886 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 20.01.1887 Proper date: 20.01.1887 Description An account of the resource In the course of the year Asante himself made preaching journeys (beyond the circle of villages around Anumm/Boso/Akwamu) on 18 days, visiting Tschatei, Kayera, Abofrom, 2 Tschokoi villages, 2 Botoku villages, 2 Tutunyan villages, 5 Anvoe villages, 5 Atawuranu villages, 5 Tschome villages, 1 Avatei village, and 8 Awutschita villages. His catechists and teachers together travelled for 110 days. Numbers in the various communities moved as follows: Anum (where he reports 13 houses in the Salem): 3 baptisms of heathen children (father already a Christian), 5 children were born to Christians (of whom 2 died) 8 Christians moved to the town - but one person moved awey, and another was excluded. An increase over the year therefore of 12. Boso: 5 adult heathens baptised, and 3 heathen children, 10 children born to Christian parents. 3 died, 1 was excluded, and 18 moved away from the town - overall therefore there was a decrease of 3 people, and the school numbers decreased too from 24 to 19, though this was because 4 boys went on to Akropong, and one ran away. In Bose they have completed a 4 room swish and shingles house for their catechist. Kpalime: 30 adult heathen were baptised, and 34 heathen children; 2 children were born to Christians, and 3 Christians moved to that town. 1 of the newly-baptised died - the Kpalime community now consists of 76, and they have begun to build themselves a Christian village. The number of pupils in the school has risen from 12 to 20. They have set to work on a chapel also. There is little information on the pastoral situation. Asante writes only in these terms about Anum (except to say that the chief who had troubled the Christians in Boso had died in November). What he writes about Anum is mostly in general terms — though he does mention catechumens being in period of preparatory instruction before the baptismal instruction proper begins. They are learning to say the Lord's Prayer, the Creed and the 10 Commandments. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.45.VI..98 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.45 - Ghana 1886: D-01.45.VI. - Anum Title A name given to the resource Report for the Year 1886, Written by David Asante 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: 07.04.1886 Proper date: 07.04.1886 Description An account of the resource On the receipt of presents for the Boso church from Europe the Boso chief said that they would have to treat the Christians in a friendly way - partly because they were known in Europe. Asante reports that the chief and elders have once more turned back to hostility, however. Asante claims that the reasons for this are two. Firstly the treatment of wives in the Christian village is so much better than it is in the heathen village, that wives are divorcing their husbands to become Christians (he cites one case of this happening at the beginning of February with the help of the wife's brother). Secondly the chief’s second son was on the point of becoming a catechumen - he had prepared for this several years ago by sending away two of his three wives - and with him were likely to come a number of other men. This would have started a mass conversion. As a result chief and elders decided that (1) In future no woman might become a catechumen without either her husband or her parents. If a woman did become a catechumen nevertheless she must repay to her husband 100%, and not as was customary 50% of the money he gave her at marriage. (2) From then on no man was to become a Christian whoever did become a Christian was to be treated as an outlaw. If this still did not deter him his relatives must hand him over to the chief for a fine of 150 marks as a delinquent. Upon the teacher and elders of the community remonstrating with the chief and eldere of the village, the second rule was withdrawn and another substituted. The Christians might not evangelise in the houses, but only in the streets. The chief's son has joined the community but has been deprived of his land, and there are threats that he will be 'taken away’ from a service. They are afraid that he will be 'taken away' from his baptismal service. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.45.VI..96 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.45 - Ghana 1886: D-01.45.VI. - Anum Title A name given to the resource Report for the First Quarter 1886 on Boso 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: 20.10.1886 Proper date: 20.10.1886 Description An account of the resource He has baptised the catechumens in Boso, having examined them, and explained some of the things which they had learned by heart. He dates this as taking place on the 16th Sunday after Trinity. There was one man and his 2 children whose wife unfortunately has not decided to become a Christian, one family of three, the wife of a long-baptised husband, and a youth. The chief's son of Boso was also among those baptised. Reports of what is going on in Kpalime refer not simply to Kpalime, but also to the 3 neighbouring villages of To, Kayera, and Tschatei. 9 of the baptism candidates in Kpalime he deferred till another time, but the rest he taught 6 hours a day for 8 days - they knew the things they had learned will off by heart but it was a hard job teaching them to understand them, since they do not speak Twi very well. At the end of his period of instruction he asked them if they would still like to be baptised, and gave them a night to think over the answer. The baptismal service took place on the 17th Sunday after Trinity in the presence of a large congregation of heathens, including the chief of Kpalime, and with many of the Christians from Boso present. The 30 'adults' range in age from 40 to 12. Among these were two fetish priestesses who at the time of their registering as catechumens had invited the local catechist to came and burn their fetishes and the shrines. At the same event two Christians were received back into the community. They had previously been members of the Akropong community, been excluded on account of adultery in one case and lapse into fetishism in the other, had moved away from Akropong, and now were being re-accepted with their sins absolved at the same time that their wives were baptised. After the baptisms they all celebrated a festive meal. The Christians in Kpalime and To have already selected a pence of land on which to build a Christian village - they are already being troubled by the chicanery of their pagan neighbours. The land from Akwamu to Nkonya have all been taken under the British protection. This occurred at a great assembly in Peki on 30th September. At the same time certain major laws were proclaimed - emancipation of slaves and freedom of religion, for example. The 'friendly' official who addressed the Assembly stressed mission work and especially schools in his address. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.45.VI..97 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.45 - Ghana 1886: D-01.45.VI. - Anum Title A name given to the resource Report from Asante for the Third Quarter of 1886 Concerning the Development of the Church in Kpalime 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: 18.12.1886 Proper date: 18.12.1886 Description An account of the resource Petition for posting to Akropong to enable him to look after his children. In his comment on this Eisenschnid, as Twi district Praeses, remarks that almost all the local workers in the mission like sooner or later to work in their home town, and build themselves a house there. Johannes Müller comments that virtually none of the local workers send their children to be brought up in missionary homes, and wonders why. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.45.VI..93 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.45 - Ghana 1886: D-01.45.VI. - Anum Title A name given to the resource Petition from David Asante 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: 31.01.1887 Proper date: 31.01.1887 Description An account of the resource Attempts to buy land in Nkwatia end Bepong have failed. They have to fight ageinst misapprehension among the Christians as well as the heathen that money from Europe can easily be come by the missionaries and secondly that they need land in all localities as they needed it in order to set up the Abetifi station. In Abetifi the station land is partly planted by the Christians - a few of them had a good crop of coffee. There is no question of renting here as there is in Akwapim, however, since there is no shortage of agricultural land in Kwahu. The local people at the end of the year do give the mission 50 cents to 1 Frank 50 out of their proceeds, but that is really because this is their custom among themselves. But he makes in extended form exactly the same point as Ramseyer that because the coast is so far away it is difficult to find a suitable economic activity - idleness is one of their greatest enemies. 'Often we are completely at a loss in the face of the question by what means can we accustom our people to hard work, to proper and useful use of time.' Useful business would be a saving means to point the way to our young people in the face of many events which run counter to the intention and spirit of the Christian community order. Summarising the changing of mission personal on the station Schmid reports Dilger's leaving for Europe with his family in January, Sitzler's being transferred to Begoro, and the Ramseyer’s being detained in Akwapim by an illness of Mrs Ramseyer, and the Akim troubles. Only Brother Tschopp stayed in the station the whole year. Their Christmas was saddened by the latter's severe illness, and in the distressing cases of sin in the community which led to the exclusion of several members of the community. Nathaniel Beko, the assistant catechist, whose name stood first in the baptismal register of Kwahu, died in November, peacefully in faith - though his wife deserted him 14 days before his death, only to return to the station 14 days after it. Writing about their local assistants, mainly Kwabi and Boateng, Schmid remarks that they travelled a lot, the former for a quarter of the year, the latter in the last half-year spending much of his time with the three Christians of Nkwatia. Schmid is, however, rather critical of them and their results. Kwabi is lively and fresh in his sermons, and they portray the certainty of his own convictions. But he lacks that inner warmth, which alone can wake movements of the spirit in his hearers. This kind of warmth greys only out of a man’s inner experience in fellowship with God and if these members of the mission know to mercy or sharing of sorrows then the missionaries must come to the front more, and make their influence felt more. The catechists have never in his presence on their own initiative followed up their preaching by going and speaking privately with people in their houses. They go on their preaching journeys more because that is their job than because they have an inner urge to extend a helping hand to people who need it. A sign of this is that they can never give a definite answer to the question of what the results are of their preaching in a particular place. Schmid stressed to them that when preaching they must always keep their eyes open for people who are not just showing an outward interact, but also are really accepting the message inwardly, and to come nearer to them by private conversation. If a Christian family can be brought into existence then it will be a light to the rest of the people in the village. This kind of point he has made the subject of their discussions every time he has met them, also as directed by the Basel Committee they have held two conferences for catechists at which this sort of point is discussed. As for the community - the numbers have decreased rather than increased, and compared with the older stations this station appears in no favourable light — indeed it has problems all its own. There were no baptims although Schmid inherited a number of catechumens, whose instruction he took over from Catechist Boateng, none of whom he felt could be baptised. Two of them indeed 'fell’ one was already married to an excluded Christian, and then committed adultery with a young man who had already been excluded for that sin. Another was married to a Christian wife who at this time committed adultery with a young Christian, and the candidate himself took up several sittings of the presbyters over his claim for 35 Franks satisfaction. Others were irregular in their attendance at morning and evening prayers, .and the instruction itself, and gave derisory excuses like being involved in cutting wood or cooking for their absences. Schmid remarks that with most of them there was no inner living longing for salvation, no single minded search for peace, truth, and a quickening of the soul, nor did they have a real acknowledgement of sin, a striving after a reform of their character, a preparedness to change their outward habits in accordance with the word of God, nor a lust for the ‘pure milk of the gospel’. In the community the attendance at Sunday services is satisfactory -- people will only be absent if they have a very important matter to attend to. But many believe that Sunday attendance is all that is required of them. The weekday liturgies are not at all well observed. And people feel no need of them and the inner peace they might bring, judging by the excuses they offer for not attending a flippancy of their attitudes when they are coming away from a service which they have attended. The missionaries on their side must fall to earnest self-examination on account of this kind of failure of their work - perhaps one of his colleagues is right when he writes ‘we labour in a time of small things because we are small people’. In their behaviour as marriage partners and members of the community the people need loving instruction, teaching, enheartening, and correction. 3 more families have moved onto the station in the course of the year, and so have several youths. The majority of the latter live in the town, however, and the missionaries have no means to force them onto the station, while they pay no heed whatever to arguments about morals. Schmid remarks that the greater number of the Kwahu Christians (he specifically points out that he is not talking about. Akwapim Christians in Kwahu), have graduated from the boarding school, and many have been servants of the missionaries, too. Unfortunately when they become adult they return to their families because of the difficulty of marriage and the lack of work - none of the Kwahu students who have gone to the middle schools in Begoro or Akropong have completed the course, and the Kwahu people often ask what the point of school is, since boys who have attended school have got nowhere. There is only one Christian Kwahu pair – all the other married Kwahu Christians are in mixed heathen-Christian marriages. It is extremely difficult for the women to achieve equality in marriages. However the married catechists provide a living picture of Christian families. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.45.V..90 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.45 - Ghana 1886: D-01.45.V. - Abetifi Title A name given to the resource Report for the Station Abetifi in the Year 1886 (Written by G. Schmid)