348 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: 12.04.1887 Proper date: 12.04.1887 Description An account of the resource Points out the problems involved in holding the Kibi School in Begoro, and asked the Executive Committee (Local Committee) to enquire whether the Governor proposes to instruct the Kibi community to return there or not. They first feel that unless a return is prepared in this way the Kibi community will not return. In the meantime they ask for £15 to build a temporary sleeping room for the 30-35 pupils - at that moment they were all sleeping in two rooms in the lower storey of the mission house. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.47.IV..74 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-01.47 - Ghana 1887: D-01.47.IV. - Begoro Title A name given to the resource Begoro Stations Conference 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: 02.05.1887 Proper date: 02.05.1887 Description An account of the resource The letter is marked private. Being called to the coast on 27th April, he had considered it necessary to take his wife to Aburi although her confinement was due on 9th May, but they had got to Aburi in 3 days, without any rain, and with no carrier slipping in the mod to cause an upset. In the Police—Court process in Accra the mission is represented by Mr Bannerman, and the Okyhenhene's side by Mr Moss. Most of the letter is taken up with protest against a letter written by the departed Governor. Points made: 1. He has never been in conflict before in his l2 years of service with the mission in Akim. As missionary in Begoro he had seen everything from a distance and had nothing to do with earlier difficulties with Ata. The difficulties with Ata in December 1886 were only his second time of having dealings with him. In May 1886, the first occasion for having dealings with him, he had invited Mohr to eat with him, and sent him food for 10 days. He had asked him to measure his stone house, and to make plans and proposals as to its extension. Everyone knew Mohr was his 'friend' — in his many letters to him Ata had called him "M'adamfo pa“. 2. When Ata lay dying, he is said to have asked to be baptised. He confessed his sins and asked this urgently, his sister Ohyerewa refused (at first) and then offered to find a Wesleyan, but he asked for a 'German' missionary because he knew them,- and knew too that their services were the right ones. They knew how to put him off, however, and he died before his wish mas acted on. Mohr thinks this must be true - if it were not then the heathen would not any tell this story - an important Akim man who is now a catechumen also told Mohr the same tale. 3. Mohr also protests that he never accused Ata, only asked for protection. The legal relationship was that Ata was the accuser of Bosompem. It was the Governor who called Ata to Accra, and the Governor who would not begin proceedings till M. was in Accra. The Governor asserts that the heathen accuse Mohr of being responsible for Ata's death, but no-one knows who has said this and when. 4. Mohr points out that no Christian has levelled charge against Ata since his return from prison. Boakye's charges were made against the Asuum people. Charges against Ata have been made by heathens — Mohr cites one of an Abomoso man who swore the king's oath was then imprisoned, fined, and an attempt made to force him to drink the blood of three sheep in one sitting who appealed to Government. Comparing his case with Asante's Mohr points out that there had been many points of conflict between Ata fin and Asante. He particularly protests against the idea of being transferred to Anum, and faced with still more building - it is only a year since Dr. Fisch despaired of his recovery from yellow fever,- and in any case he badly wants a chance to devote himself to study and preaching. Mohr's recipe for a settlement is Government backing in restoring the Kibi, Apapam, Tete and Apedwa communities to their former places, and when that has happened he feels sure that no-one except a few people in Ata's immediate family will hold anything against him. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.47.IV..75 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-01.47 - Ghana 1887: D-01.47.IV. - Begoro Title A name given to the resource Mohr to Basel Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 11.05.1887 Proper date: 11.05.1887 Description An account of the resource Includes the news that the high court in Accra had found against the prosecution in the case in which Bosompem was involved. The Christians broke out into song-in the court building; and into the night paraded around the streets of the town singing. The Governor met him later and sounded sympathetic, while the chief justice said it was hard to think of a way of proceedings for damages in such a case. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.47.IV..76 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-01.47 - Ghana 1887: D-01.47.IV. - Begoro Title A name given to the resource Rottmann 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: 03.02.1887 Proper date: 03.02.1887 Description An account of the resource The letter is marked private. Reports Ata’s death in the find of consumption. His follower had immediately taken him off on the direct way to Kibi to be buried at Banso. Mohr had told the Governor that there was an outstation close by the burial ground which needed protection, but 'the old gentleman' said that he had no officers to spare. However, he asked Mr Cleland to send one of his people to Kibi to protect the Mission property there against damage. At the beginning of January the Asuums had been fined £50 for contempt of court - they had failed to answer charges against them in the Court in Accra. The Governor would have preferred the whole thing to lie in abeyance, but the missionaries could not allow this to happen. He reports a general reaction among the local agents of sending wives back to Akropong, and themselves stopping work until the troubles have ended. Mohr reckons that as Akwapims and strangers nothing would-have happened to them anyway. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.47.IV..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-01.47 - Ghana 1887: D-01.47.IV. - Begoro Title A name given to the resource Mohr to Basel Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 24.02.1887 Proper date: 24.02.1887 Description An account of the resource The letter is printed apparently in full in Heidenbote 1887, pp33-34. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.47.IV..91 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-01.47 - Ghana 1887: D-01.47.IV. - Begoro Title A name given to the resource Rösler to Basel Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 02.05.1887 Proper date: 02.05.1887 Description An account of the resource According to Sitzler the command had been given to chain Mohr to the block while the Kibi troubles were afoot but the command coincided with the arrival of a messenger that with the news of the coming of-a Government’s officer. He criticises the Christians for having little personal courage when the troubles broke out. He again expresses pessimism as the prospects of the return of the Kibi community. The Begoro Christians had pressed Mrs Mohr and himself to move away, offering to carry them to Aburi, but they had refused partly out of concern at the fate of the Begoro station, partly because they were unsure of their reception in the towns they would have had to pass en route. On 10th February there was panic on the station at the news that there were Kibi people in Begoro - the station was clear of all but the local agents and missionaries in 10 minutes (it seems that this was part cause of Sitzler’s comment that the Christians lacked courage, the day before a man had told him that they would not run away and leave their master, that would be shameful). Sitzler was called into the town, and found 2 Kibi people there with the message that all Christians were to leave Akim. He asked for 8 days' grace - this was not allowed. During the night the Christians returned, packed their baggage and prepared to make a communal trek away from Begoro, and then in the morning the missionaries asked after them they had already gone (it appears at this stage that the missionaries would have evacuated could they have get carriers.). Not all the schoolboys left Begoro - some went and lived with heathen families in the town. One such is cited by Sitzer as a prime example of ingratitude - as a six-fingered child he had been saved from death by the earlier Missionary Mohr, and had been brought up right through his life by missionaries. He had almost been dismissed from the Middle School in the previous year through being so much involved with a heathen girl, and at the departure of the Christians he went to live in the town again and got involved with another. After considerable efforts Sitzler managed to get the other pupils sleeping back on the station - the ultimate and effective deterrent was that if they did not obey him in this, they would be dismissed from the school. Sitzler writes that it was a hard struggle to get the school re—started again. Not only were the boys unwilling, the teachers were very resistant to start work when their colleagues from Kibi and the outstations were still idle. On 14th March Lethbridge and Brennan set out for Kibi. In discussions there the chiefs declare they would have no part with £500 compensation for damages, and would fight. Only one chief had brought his men with him. He repeats materia1 about the struggle to keep the schools in session at the time of the troops' moving to Kibi, with the additional point of an aphorism to persuade the teachers to take initiatives in keeping the schools going - 'everybody takes it for granted, right through the world, if someone isn't working, he doesn't get paid’ (Das verstehe sich in aller Welt von selbst, wenn jewand ncht arbeitet, wird er auch nicht bezahlt).The energy with which the teachers set about their task on this news was evidence of their interest in money once more - 'when-will our people start to work because their hearts tell them to, and not just because they are paid?' He reports that in Holy Week the agents were sent back to their posts, but five had returned to Begoro before he signed the letter. Everyone thinks that until Christians are settled once more at Kibi the other towns will not accept Christians. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.47.IV..92 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-01.47 - Ghana 1887: D-01.47.IV. - Begoro 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: 05.06.1887 Proper date: 05.06.1887 Description An account of the resource Complains about the dealy involved in settling the matter in Akim. Lethbridge has no troops now, and this gives the Akim chiefs room for manoeuvre. The £500 has been collected. A ‘Bond of Peace' is being prepared. Turton (Colonial Secretary) is unfortunately hostile to the mission. He told Mohr that Lethbridge had been presented with a list of conditions on which the Christians would be allowed back into Akim. No fishing in certain streams, no planting certain types of yam, no working on certain week-days. There are also complaints about Christians not taking their cases before village chiefs. Mohr is keen on things being arranged, otherwise the crucial aspect of the Ata problem will recur, people not knowing how far they could go. Administrator White has promised to get the Christians back as quickly as possible, but having had such trouble collecting the £500 fine he is not disposed to collect damages for the Christians, even for the £126 extorted in Kibi. Mohr offered to abstain from legal processes if this sum could be covered, but White said he had nothing to do with the courts. Mohr complains that the Christians are being pushed towards the courts though they do not know who actually stole their possessions in most cases, while much of the damage would have been avoided if only Governor Griffith had taken Mohr's advice to send a man with the funeral procession into Akim. Mohr talked to White about his own position. A letter accusing him of various misdeeds had in fact turned out to be identical to one found by Mohr, which had been written by Lethbridge's interpreter. Mohr points out that this man, now calling himself Newman, is no less than the long-ago dismissed Basel Mission. Akwapim employee, Obuobisa. He felt that he had probably been bribed by the Kibi people to intrigue against him. White agreed that his long stay in Begoro had not given rise to charges, and a letter had arrived from Lethbridge saying that the Kibi people had nothing against him really. In the Kibi community there are some of the opinion that if they do not receive compensation they should find some easy and profitable place to settle down. Mohr is evidently very pleased with Bosompem's attitudes. He has said that the community belongs to Akim and should return there. He has also said not a word about court cases to revenge himself on the people who caused him all his trouble. Mohr had been making investigations as to how people lapsed during the persecution. In many villages people went no further than that Christians should move back to live with their heathen relatives. Others had to swear that they would no longer live on mission land. Others to swear that they would have nothing to do with the 'school people'. So far he has uncovered no requirement to express hatred of or curse the name of Jesus. In some places people were told to call the fetish. This they did with the mental footnote that they did not believe the fetish existed, that Jesus knew that they thought in this way, and that He knew that they loved him. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.47.IV..77 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-01.47 - Ghana 1887: D-01.47.IV. - Begoro Title A name given to the resource Mohr to Basel Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 30.06.1887 Proper date: 30.06.1887 Description An account of the resource The Akim chiefs are bonded to keep the peace on pain of £1000 fine. Complaining about the character of the English response to the Akim problem he reports that the Akim chiefs had been called to Begoro on a certain date - none came, and later a messenger came saying they wished to meet in Kibi, not Begoro. The English officer involved agreed, and set out for Kibi on a Sunday although there was no hurry. His interpreter uses his position to send the Christians away unheard whenever they make charges, while charges made by the heathen against the Christians are reported in great detail to the coast. On his return to Begoro while someone (Brennan or Lethbridge) said that if he were King of Akim he would chase the Christians out of his country too. Meanwhile the Hausas steal things from the Christians, usually when the former are in service, and the English officers will not consider any charges against the Hausas unless supported by witnesses. It seems the chief of Abomosu has been judged liable to pay £40 damages for what happened to the chapel in Asunafo but laughs when anyone asks him to pay this sum. Rösler knows nothing about the negotiations with the Kibi chiefs except what the heathen tell him, though the latest information (again not officially communicated to him) is that though Lethbridge had thought his duties were over, he has been instructed to remain in Akim until the end of the obsequy customs, and the choice of a new Okyenhene (the Government appears to have believed that there was a link between these events), following which the Christians would be re-introduced. The Governor appears to have given the Kibi chiefs 6 weeks to complete this, but Rösler feels sure that they will try to get another 40 day delay. They hear that the Government has got the Kibi people to work on the repair of the Mission House and Chapel, though they are not making the best job of it (he hears) and also they want in the Christians to settle somewhere else eventually. They are interested in the choice of Okyenhene – then being two candidates, one a weakly gifted brother of Ata, the other a 16 year old matrilineal nephew. The bulk of the chiefs favour the latter: the former would really mean a ‘regiment of women', including especially the Queen Mother and Ata's well-known sister Okyerera. In fact there is a sprinkling of Christians returning to the outstations, and indeed in the places nearest Begoro the local agents are back at work in Kukurantumi, Tafo, Fankyeneko, Anyinam, Kwabeng Tumfa Asiakwa, Asafo. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.47.IV..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-01.47 - Ghana 1887: D-01.47.IV. - Begoro Title A name given to the resource Rösler to Basel Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 25.07.1887 Proper date: 25.07.1887 Description An account of the resource There are papers about the suspension without pay of Evang. G. Botwe called to Begoro to attend lessons he had refused to do so, and informed them that he was going to Nsakye to make farm. He was literate, but not very well educated. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.47.IV..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-01.47 - Ghana 1887: D-01.47.IV. - Begoro Title A name given to the resource Sitzler to Eisenschmid 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: 10.08.1887 Proper date: 10.08.1887 Description An account of the resource Governor Griffith's letter suggesting Mohr should be posted away from Akim had arrived in the hands of the Mission the day after he sailed away. And this was after Mohr had been in Osu for three weeks; and could have answered the allegations had they been made. Mohr then reviews the evidence etc. against him. The main support for Griffith's 1etter was the letter which Mohr had sent to Ata's secretary Kwaku Nyako (otherwise Hudson), and their ex—teacher Oforidee. They believed that Bosompem really was in danger of his life, also that they could not be sure that the messenger sent from Apapa wmould get through, and this was one way of alerting the Akropong brethren to the dangers of the situation. Rottmann the cashier in Christiansborg had been especially puzzled as to why they had paid the money out which they did pay out in Kibi (Mohr points out in passing that this letter is evidence that £500 and not £3,500 was the losses stated at the time from the alleged theft. The latter figure was what was being put forward in the Accra court proceedings.) Even had the £500 been paid and lost. One man's life was worth far more than the money. Mohr reckons the Fante involved in the affair had told the others in prison that he was receiving £4 and l/- per day for his part in the affair, no money had been stolen. Commenting once more on the letter sent to Oforidee and Nyako, Mohr points out that Oforidee had worked previously under his supervision. Moreover they work with the Okyenhene's linguist Agyeman and Ata's brother-in-law Odo of Tumfa, were the people to whom the cash collected by the missionaries was actually given over for safe-keeping. Mohr had also warned Oforidee frequently to hold the king back from his illegal acts, while in fact they were both privy to the secret plan. Then the Okyenhene died, the Governor allowed the heathen party to return to Akim and indeed gave them £50 for the custom, while they spoke threats to the Christians and indeed in the Nsawam district beat up a number of Christians whom they met with the result that one of them died later. Mohr therefore sent this letter with the objective of saving the £126 pounds and including the point that their original 'devilish plan' as known to the missionaries. He argues that the tone of the letter should not have surprised anyone who among the mission's friends did not believe that Ata's death was a judgement? One problem seeds to have been that the letter include the phrase that a copy would be given to the Governor. This was not done, and Turton had viewed this point in its worst light. Mohr however explains that he had been busy with a memo which Rottmann had asked him to send to the Governor, and having finished this was immediately overtaken with by the news of the destruction in Kibi etc. and the holding of a Council which decided Mohr should return to Akim with a military escort. The accusation had also been made that the letter had contributed to the anger and was thus partly responsible for the destruction. Unfortunately the Kukurantumi catechist could not remember whether it had reached Kibi on the 12th or 13th February. Neverhteless an Apapam Christian had seen pieces of the Kibi mission-house furniture in Apapam on February 5th and Mohr was able to report a series of misdeeds on February 5th, so that it was immaterial whether the letter had arrived on the 11th or l3th. In fact the procession with Ata's corpse had arrive in Kibi on February 4th. Mohr also goes through the events from the Governor's side. His version of what happened after Ata's death repeats other earlier material except that about Cleland's representatives (he calls them 'chiefs'): 'I have learned that they started in Nsawam last Wednesday the 9th, and will probably reach Kibi this evening the llth. Up to the day of the death of the Okyenhene Christians and heathen from Akim had been given subsistence. This ceased on the day of the death, but while the heathen were given £50 the Christians were simply told (through Mohr) to remain in Osu. Mohr also quotes from a memo written on 9th February that a chief called Atshery(?) boasted that they had been given a letter by the Governor in which it was forbidden for any Christian to return to Akim to preach in any Akin town, while in Nsawam Okyerewa swore an oath on chief Obeng that he should kill the Christians in the town - the Governor had given permission for this. He complains that after the hearing of early May no proceedings had been taken for false witness against witnesses on the Okyenhene's side who had been shown to be lying, while the costs of the action had been laid on the Christians. This even though the Attorney General was friendly disposed to them. Turton he identifies as their chief adversary – a Catholic. He was the chief cause of Boakye's case against the Asuum people being held up, and had caused Boakye to be known as a 'bad fellow' - a phrase used of him by Griffiths in an interviwm with Rottmann and Mohr. Mohr defends himself vigorously from the suggestion that the soldiers are being kept in Begoro (where they have commenced to trade) for the sake of his safety. In April he journeyed without escort to Aburi. The comparison which showed that Obuobisa had written the Kibi letter about Mohr was not a comparison of texts, but a comparison of handwritings. In discussing this point Mohr writes that he had explained to Lethbridge that (who is named as the officer who had said he would have thrown the Christians out of Akim if he had been king) that the missionaries saw the-struggle as one between heathenism and Christianity which now promises to become a power – but he had derided this view. He reviews the history of the conflict once more, especially in the light of the accusation by the Governor that he had acted in such a way as ‘had materially affected the moral influence which a Christian missionary should exercise', pointing out that they were taken back to Kibi by force and that the aggression was all on the side of the Okyenhene. The guarantee of responsibility signed by the chiefs who called Mohr back from Apedwa was required by Ata on 22 December and Mohr handed it over, but only after secretly making a copy and having it witnessed by a number of the Christians. One point he present in evidence of the cordiality of relations between himself and Ata in May 1886 is the fact that Ata had allowed him to photograph himself, his mother, his sister, and two of his wives. He defends himself against the saying, common among the missionaries even, that he was Ata's chief accuser - he had after all gone to Begoro rather that the coast deliberately in order to avoid this appearance, and went to the coast in early January only after pressure from the Governor per Missionary Rottmann. Mohr's subscript dated 15 August reports that Lethbridge had been instructed to go to Kibi and force four chiefs to sign the bond of peace - those of Abomosu, Osenase, Wankyi and Akyease. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.47.IV.,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-01.47 - Ghana 1887: D-01.47.IV. - Begoro Title A name given to the resource Mohr to Basel Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 19.08.1887 Proper date: 19.08.1887 Description An account of the resource Of the six pupils in the senior class in the Kibi school at the beginning of the school year, three had got as far as examination to enter the Middle School. Of the other three one had been taken by his parents to the coast and died, one had gone to the Akropong Boarding School and been kept their there on the instructions of his mother's sister who lives there. The third had heathen parents who have only in the past week returned him to the school. They must therefore have a class of three, in the hope that more will follow. No pupils from Abetifi was qualified, though a previous pupil of the Akropong Middle School has arrived and begged to be taken on - the son of heathen parents he has been brought up by an elder brother who is one of the presbyters at Nsakye. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.47.IV..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-01.47 - Ghana 1887: D-01.47.IV. - Begoro Title A name given to the resource Sitzler's Report on Schools in Akim at the End of the School 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: 23.08.1887 Proper date: 23.08.1887 Description An account of the resource Lists the four chiefs who are being forced to sign the bond of peace, but omits Osenase and adds instead Okyereso. Obomosu and Akyease have signified that they will not meet Lethbridge in Kibi for this purpose. Apparently the idea at this stage was for £100 of the £500 collected to be given to the heathen, the rest to the Christians. Mohr criticised the idea of returning money to the heathen, and also pointed out that the £500 had been collected in 30/- units from all the heathen irrespective of how much damage they had done - Okyerewa, for example was getting off scot free. And if £100 was returned, instead of the people who had stolen property and then returned it getting the money, it would simply be divided among the chiefs. Over the return of the Christians Mohr has suggested to them that they refuse until the £126 extorted in the December Days had been returned. A case has come before the court in Accra in which a servant of Ata's, Yam Bekye, who had been accused of the theft, tried to get £64 back from Apeaning, one of the Okyenhene's treasurers. The judge had argued that Apeaning was not personally responsible, however, and asked Bekye to bring the claim up once a successor to Ate had been chosen. Mohr had estimated the damage to mission property in Kibi, Tete Apedwa, Asunafo and Abosmsu as £355=3=0. The largest items being the Kibi library valued at £55, and the Mission house furniture at £122= 9=0. The Kibi mission house had glass windows. Community property in Kibi - damage estimated at £92=l2=0 (This includes a computation of 8/- loss personal property in the Kibi school per boy), losses suffered by mission employees at £120=1l=0 (the largest using £30 claim by Ofori, the average being £11,"claimed by Gyima and Ch. Owusu, Okyere, Gyamera, and Botwe). Mohr agrees that the losses can probably be pared down to £450 when returned property etc. is taken into account. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.47.IV..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-01.47 - Ghana 1887: D-01.47.IV. - Begoro Title A name given to the resource Mohr to Basel Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 06.10.1887 Proper date: 06.10.1887 Description An account of the resource This report seems to have been printed in full in Heidenbote 1888 pp2-4. Reports a trip around the West Akim outstations. He writes that some groups of Christians have returned to their homes, others have gathered together and are living as communities. Even those in their homes, however, are living with some worry and will do until the situation in Kibi has been clarified. Meantime no Okyenhene has yet been chosen. Rösler offers as explanations that the chiefs are not united in their choice, and that a petition has recently gone to the coast from Ata's brother, the Queen Mother, and Okyerewa, that if Christians are going to be allowed to live again in Akim they will simply not choose a new Okyenhene. Rösler lists Apedwa, Apapam, Banso and Tete as supporting the petition. Nevertheless at last Acting Governor White has called the Christians to Accra to negotiate about compensation and then to have them conducted back to Kibi. The Christians of Fankyeneko-Osino—Abompe-Dwenase have all been excluded because after Ata was taken to the case they were all intimidated. They have mostly already asked for re-acceptance. Anyinam - the greater part of the community fled to the coast where they have re-settled. A smaller group went off into Kwahu, and have now returned. Another small group, the native Anyinams among the Christians were forced to swear that they would leave the Christian quarter. A presbyter has lost his wife who was a pawn sent by a Kwahu man to Anyinam in return for credit, had then been emancipated and was now sold off to Kwahu by her former master. Lethbridge had sent two Hausas after her, but they were laughed at in Kwahu they had no legal standing. The man himself went, and the new master has promised to free the woman if he is paid £6. The children did not want to let their father go away again. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.47.IV..94 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-01.47 - Ghana 1887: D-01.47.IV. - Begoro Title A name given to the resource Rösler's Report for the Third Quarter of 1887 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.47.IV..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-01.47 - Ghana 1887: D-01.47.IV. - Begoro Title A name given to the resource List of Furniture in the Mission House in Kibi Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 11.11.1887 Proper date: 11.11.1887 Description An account of the resource Eisenschmid was present as well as Mohr and Rösler. This suggests assigning £128 to repairs etc. at Kibi Mission House, including £68 for furniture and £20 for the Library. The school buildings are assigned £45, and the Kibi catechists’ houses etc. £19. £40 to the Kibi chapel, £30 to the Abomosu catechists’ house, £12 to the Apapam chapel, £8 to be divided among the 40 pupils of the school, £65 among the 9 employees, £175 to be divided among the Christians, plus £126 repayment of money extorted. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.47.IV..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-01.47 - Ghana 1887: D-01.47.IV. - Begoro Title A name given to the resource Stations Conference Protocool at Begoro Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 05.01.1887 Proper date: 05.01.1887 Description An account of the resource This report is mostly printed as appendix to the 1887 Annual Report, pp97ff. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.47.V..113 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-01.47 - Ghana 1887: D-01.47.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: 29.01.1887 Proper date: 29.01.1887 Description An account of the resource In the organisation of work on the return of the Ramseyers Schmid is made station Präses (Chairman). Ramseyer is assigned mainly to preaching journeys. In subscripts written by (inter al) Eisenschmid it appears that the idea ist that Ramseyer should be free to move one stage into the interior, perhaps to Agogo, though Mohr and Müller are against making Agogo a station at this stage. Eisenschmid evidently regrets the concentration of strength in Abetifi in view of the need of the Volta mission. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.47.V..109 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-01.47 - Ghana 1887: D-01.47.V. - Abetifi Title A name given to the resource Protocol of the Station Conference 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: 14.04.1887 Proper date: 14.04.1887 Description An account of the resource En route for Abetifi on their return to the coast they met some of Apeo be injured in the Akim troubles – including Joseph Bosompom, who had worked for Werner in Abetifi. On their return to Abetifi the Abetifihene came to greet them in state (without Ramseyer’s having been to visit him), embraced him, and gave him a ‘magnificent’ present. At the end of January there were two developments in the political sphere. There were messengers from Kumasi to the Kwahus saying that the Asantes wanted to put a new Asantehene on the stool and wanted the Kwahus to be present (i.e. to do allegiance to him again). At the same time an armed party from the Asantes in Akim (there is no mention of the Juabens) came to get compensation for the death of one of their number after he had been wounded in Kwahu. This matter was investigated at Nkwatia – at one stage it looked as if would come to blows, and the Kwahu young men were called in. The Abetifihene appealed to Ramseyer to go down to Nkwatia to help keep the peace – Ramseyer had already alerted Schmid and Kwabi who in fact were went to Nkwatia and advised the case be taken before the courts of the Colony which was in the end accepted. The Kumasi Embassy was sent back to Kumasi with the message that the Kwahus wanted no common dealings with the Asantes. 70 Akim Christians fled to Kwahu in the first half of February – most from Asumafo, the rest from Abomosu. Ramseyer was glad to see how well they were welcomed in Abetifi, and Kwahu Christians sharing their houses with them, and helping with food. They had remained at Ramseyer’s writing two months, and had suffered no want. The Mpraeso chief had been disposed to treat these people as refugees or prisoners, and apparently sent messengers to Kibi to ask what should be done with the Christians, and whether it was true that they would have been killed in Akim. Ramseyer adds that the Kwahus have often appealed to the Akims to assist them in being put under English protection. Meantime the Asantes in Akim (it is clear this time that it was the Juabens) took the opportunity of the uproar to try to put pressure on the Kwahus over the case discussed above, by preventing Kwahu access to the coast. They managed to get a message to the Wesleyan Agent in Koforidua, however, who took the matter up with the chief involved. In Kwahu there has been come backlash from the Akim troubles. The Christians were chased off the land at Nkwatia, and the Nkwatiahene told them to Go to Kibi and learn wisdom. The Mpraeso chief said he did not wish to sell land to the mission in case he later found himself in conflict with them, as had happened in Akim. They hear that among the tribes around Kwahu it is being said that if schools and the Word of God lead to conflicts like those in Akim it would be better to do without them. The missionaries are stressing to the Kwahu Christians that they must behave as Christs's, servants with his attitudes, humility, and obedience, and that they should put themselves under the political authority in all things which were not contrary to the Word of God. He reports that they had decided to give up the idea of someone resident in Nkwatia. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.47.V..114 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-01.47 - Ghana 1887: D-01.47.V. - 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: 16.04.1887 Proper date: 16.04.1887 Description An account of the resource The Kwahus make mattresses of the cotton wool from the silk-cotton tree. In Bepease they saw a Dente shrine - there was another notable shrine in the middle of the town, too, a rifle stock stuck into the ground. He summaries his preaching in Bepease on the base of c4.12: Everyone wants to live and be happy – naturally because God gave life, and wants people to live with him eternally. Men were driven away from God after the first sin, however, and made subjects of sin – especially people who serve the fetishes. Death is the thing that shows this, because death is the wages of sin. And so are illness hetred quarrelling and crimes. Fetish priests make gods which have no life, and worldly riches (he cites slaves inter al) are subjects to sin's results. The Christology is presented normally without a trace of the substitutionary atonement. Judgement is offered fairly vigorously as a reason for making the right decision, especially as his hearers ipso facto had less excuse new than before. Bepease seems to be a place where preaching is not unknown, because he mentions that they preached in the usual place. The gathering was not large because so many people were out on the farms. It was attentive on the whole, although some people including the chief went away before the preaching was over. In the woods between Sadan Kama and Nkwatanag they passed a neat row of three houses where there were ‘European flowers’ in the garden – it belonged to the fetish priest of Bepease. Sadan Kama was composed of 4-6 groups of houses, and Nkwatanag about 20 houses. The latter partly a hunter settlement – Tschopp also saw a woman spinning cotton, and quantities of cotton packed up in banana leaves. Many people with swollen limbs a result of Guinea worm – the water is very dirty (His sermons here was more on the classic model than above as far as preaching about sin is concerned - no hidden sins before God, and eventual punishment). Preaching was not very often done in that town. At Sadan Kuma they saw a caravan of 8-10 men resting en route to Salaga. They were taking cloth, cola nuts, and spirits. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.47.V..115 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-01.47 - Ghana 1887: D-01.47.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: 05.05.1887 Proper date: 05.05.1887 Description An account of the resource A letter partly devoted to announcing the birth of twins, partly to arguing against Ramseyer’s being posted to Begoro to replace Mohr whom the English Government do not want to have in Akim. Schmid thinks that it was on account of the wives that Ramseyer would not leave the Abetifi station during the troubles with the Juabens in February. This he did in the face of repeated requests by the Kwahu chiefs that he should be there to help them. According to Schmid the key point in the discussions came when he threatened that if the Juabens did not accept the proposal to take the case to the Englisb Government, then Ramseyer would write to the Governor. The chief Juaben said ‘Ramseyer bekum yen nyinaa’. Another point is that it was not simply the Juabens who were turning back Abetifi Christian messengers to the coast, and indeed all Kwahus – such events were also occurring Osino and Nsutam. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.47.V..116 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-01.47 - Ghana 1887: D-01.47.V. - Abetifi Title A name given to the resource Schmid to Basel