849 20 77903 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 20.11.1887 Proper date: 20.11.1887 Description An account of the resource The response in Tosen is sufficient to warrant the money being spent on buying land for a catechist’s house, and the building of a church/school where all the people attending services or the school lessons can be accommodated. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.47.VI..133 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.VI. - Anum Title A name given to the resource Asante to Basel Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 26.03.1872 Proper date: 26.03.1872 Description An account of the resource Remarks over the repairing of the mission house in Kukurantumi, that Akim shingle roofs seem to last only 8 years or so, while in Akwapim, with the more suitable wood available, they last for 20-30 years. Widmann adds in a subscript that the same wood is used in Akim and Akwapim, it is simply that the wetter Akim climate makes for less suitable wood for shingels, and even then no Akwapim roof would last for 20 years without thorough repairs after at most 12. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.24.VIII..166 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-01.24 - Ghana 1872: D-01.24.VIII. - Kukurantumi Title A name given to the resource Asante to Basel Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 15.04.1872 Proper date: 15.04.1872 Description An account of the resource Reports that he has never seen 'in Africa’ such ailing children as have been sent to school with him - sores right down to the bone and crooked limbs. He has sent for medical equipment with which to go about healing them. About one-third of the village was burnt down on the 13th April when almost all the population - except for strangers - was on their farms. Asante and his two boys helped put the fire out. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.24.VIII..167 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-01.24 - Ghana 1872: D-01.24.VIII. - Kukurantumi Title A name given to the resource Asante to Basel Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 06.08.1872 Proper date: 06.08.1872 Description An account of the resource Reports difficulty in inderstanding the gloom about the possibilities in Kukurantumi: (a) all the early converts had been excluded or otherwise lost - but then, on what station has that not been the case? (b) part of the trouble was the lack of women – but except in Begoro that is the case all over Akim. Unlike 'Akwapim women are given in marriage invariably in a transaction with monetary aspects - therefore the wealth have as many wives as they want, and the poor (who are much poorer than in Akwapim) do without. (c) beyond that, one of the troubles was that many conversions happened because the motives were those of the flesh - it was a new thing and therefore people wanted to join it. (d) several mission agents were stumbling blocks (e) though Kukurantumi has not many villages near it (Asante numbers them at 3), neither has any other Akim town except Kibi, and Kukurantumi has the advantage of being a route centre for merchants from all sorts of directions. The school is now 14 pupils strong. In a subscript Widmann interprets point (d) above in terms of the Missionaries Burckhardt, Chr. Asante and Strömberg who was not a good example in all respects. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.24.VIII..168 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-01.24 - Ghana 1872: D-01.24.VIII. - Kukurantumi Title A name given to the resource Asante to Basel Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 24.10.1872 Proper date: 24.10.1872 Description An account of the resource Reports that he has taken over a two-mom week old child whose mother had died. A certain fetish claimed that this death was its work, and that the mother must be thrown into the bush, and the child with her. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.24.VIII..169/2 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.24 - Ghana 1872: D-01.24.VIII. - Kukurantumi Title A name given to the resource Asante to Basel Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 29.04.1873 Proper date: 29.04.1873 Description An account of the resource Concerning the report that the imprisoned missionaries have been executed. Asante is sure that this report is wrong, having other information from fairly sure sources, namely Akims returning from an escape from Asante captivity. They had gone to Kwahu to trade, in a party which included 3 Christians from Aburi (Widman inserted in the margin that they had gone to trade in slaves). They were captured when the Asante-Fante war broke out and taken to Kumasi. There they were taken before Karikari who consigned the Aburi Christians to the care of Ramseyer. This he heard not directly from one of the Akims, but from a man who had recently heard it at first hand. Asante also considers that if anyone will hear news about the missionaries, it would be someone in Akim. There is still secret traffic going on between the two nations and notable news leaks through with this sort of contact. For example the Begoros recently heard from Kwahus who had come there to trade that 400 Asantes had gone towards Krobo to purchase munitions, and had sent a party out in turn to attempt to capture them. In any case the Asantes believe that it was killing Sir Charles McCarthy which has brought such trouble upon them - and they rarely or never kill anyone of significance in the belief that they represent a useful bargaining point in peace negotiations. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.25.IX..20 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-01.25 - Ghana 1873: D-01.25.IX. - Kjebi and Kukurantumi Title A name given to the resource Asante to Basel Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 09.07.1873 Proper date: 09.07.1873 Description An account of the resource Reports his presence in Kibi during the period when both Haas and Lodholz were away and Eisenschmid had not yet arrived. He also reports the recent arrival of an Asante embassy on the Akim border asking the Okyenhene to carry on trade in salt with him. The Akim contingent who had gone west to join the Fante/Asin army have returned. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.25.IX..21 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-01.25 - Ghana 1873: D-01.25.IX. - Kjebi and Kukurantumi Title A name given to the resource Asante to Basel Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 20.09.1877 Proper date: 20.09.1877 Description An account of the resource The assembly at which Asante was first told to leave Akim consisted of Ata and the elders of Kibi, Apedwa, and Apapam, and the 'people': The two charges preferred against him were that he had taken the initiative in getting Ata's slaves baptised, and had taken the initiative in getting people from Ata's own household whose duty it was to serve him to discontinue doing so. Asante claims that neither of these is true; he does claim on the other hand that he protected the ex-slaves against their former masters (including the Okyenhene) when they fled onto the station, and indeed anywhere else - and he had done this on the instructions of Gouldsbury. He has put pressure on the servants of the Okyenhene’s family to stay in his household as long as people allowed them to, also telling them what duties were and that duties were not consistent with serving God. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.29.XIII..231 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.29 - Ghana 1877: D-01.29.XIII. - Kjebi Title A name given to the resource Asante to Basel Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 04.01.1878 Proper date: 04.01.1878 Description An account of the resource The letter is a commentary on the court action and the Governor's letter asking that he be moved from Kibi. Ata claimed Asante had written letters for people who wanted to accuse him before the English courts. Asante, states that he has never done this. He once gave a letter of recommendation to a Kibi Christian to the court interpreter in Accra, Jonathan Palmer. This man had been falsely punished and fined 2 ounces of gold dust. In the end the man did not press any charges against the Okyenhene. The king had accused Asante of tempting people out of his service with money. Asante replies that this is not true, and that there are indeed some people in the King's service still who are also Christians. The truth of the complaint about the teachers and letter writing was that Asante had required the king to go about obtaining their services through him. He had in fact won them to write letters which did not contain the truth by promising rewards, especially at issue was Ata's announcements about the contents of new English laws when he returned from the coast - these had been angled to gain him illegal advantages over his subjects. Though three men were imprisoned for the assault on Mrs Date, two chiefs who were also involved were let off. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.30.I..5 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.30 - Ghana 1878: D-01.30.I. - General Conference Title A name given to the resource Asante to Basel Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 26.10.1885 Date late: 06.11.1885 Proper date: 26.10.1885-06.11.1885 Description An account of the resource The new teacher for Boso was an Anum man who had gone through several classes of the Akropong Middle School. (This is R. Papa), The Palime congregation had come into being after about a year's preaching by the teacher from Bose and the Bose community. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.43.VI..141-141a 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-01.43 - Ghana 1885: D-01.43.VI. - Anum Title A name given to the resource Asante to School Inspector J.M. Müller and Note by Müller Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 31.01.1878 Proper date: 31.01.1878 Description An account of the resource The school had gone on peacefully in 1877 - the boys need to be prompted to tidiness and industry. He gives a biography of one of the Asante pupils. His name was Ofusuhene, his father had been the Asante representative in Kwahu, and thus taken prisoner when Kwahu declared for the English in the 1869-74 war and despatched with all the other Asante captives to Akim for onward escort to the coast. The father was one of those beheaded, however, and that the son was one of a party whom an English official tried to return to Asante, their escort only took them in fact to the last Akim town, and they were in fact secretly re-captured by the Akims. The boy was given to the chief of the border village by the Okyenhene, who in turn sold him to a rich man of the village, and Ofusuhene spent his time carrying loads to and from the coast. He then heard that there was a place in Kibi where slave boys could flee without fear of recapture. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.29.XIII..240 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.29 - Ghana 1877: D-01.29.XIII. - Kjebi Title A name given to the resource Asante to the Basel Women's Association - A Report on the Boarding School in 1877 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 18.10.1876 Proper date: 18.10.1876 Description An account of the resource Out of the graduates of the school up to 1876 had come 2 catechists, 2 teachers, and 3 fathers of Christian families. This is a history of the Kibi school written from Asante's own knowledge and the information in the school-records. The key moment of change for the school was after the emancipation of 1874 'when instead of tyranny and oppression (a period of) freedom and equality (arrived)’. The youth of Akim used this freedom to start coming to school. Most come from Kibi, Asiakwa and the North West. 3 are from Asante - a Kwahu whose uncle brought him to the school before the missionaries were established at Abetifi, a Juaben, and a boy from Kumasi who before had been a slave following capture as prisoner of war. It is a real haven for once slave youths - the masters are still trying to force people to remain slaves, but no-one dare touch a pupil at the Boarding School. Now ex-slaves sit next to boys from free and noble families in the boarding school - it is interesting to see the ex-slave sitting next to the boy from the royal family, and hear the former say to the latter 'Kosa nsu bra afei yew ungina ye pe’ which Asante translates to mean 'Go and fetch water, we are all alike now'. 5 of the boys who entered the school are baptismal candidates have applied for baptism - they are all older boys. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.28.VIII..226b 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-01.28 - Ghana 1876: D-01.28.VIII. - Kjebi Title A name given to the resource Asante to the Basel Women's Association: A Report on the Kibi Boarding School in the Third Quarter of 1876 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: 07.03.1870 Proper date: 07.03.1870 Description An account of the resource This letter contains the text of the letter Asante sent to the prisoners. Much is printed in the Heidenbote 1870, pp49-50, p78, p121ff. Other points in the manuscript include: The Begorohene had sent a party of men with the hunter who Asante had commissioned to take the message to Kumasi. The messenger was able to give some information on the prisoners – e.g. that they were not in Kumasi itself, but in a village about as far away as Akropong is from Mampong Akw. The man was able to say this as he had spent a whole year in Abiri. He 'also gave news on the war, which had been going badly for the Asantes - many losses and nothing much obtained. The army was now on its return journey in an area on the upper Volta called Pae, and from there they would return via Sohae to Akoroso. Many salt and tobacco merchants had come with Asante’s messenger - they were buying a quantity of salt which cost 1/- on the coast for 2 dollars and selling it again for 9-10 dollars. The business is arranged in such a way that only two Kwahus who have a secret connection with the Begorohene are allowed into the town – and they have to remain in concealment. The rest stay in the forest, while these two do business for them. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.22a.I..9 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.22a - Ghana 1870: D-01.22a.I. - Africa Title A name given to the resource Asante to Widmann https://www.bmarchives.org/files/original/57570 5c048e3180ac358798093fb11caa4bd8 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. 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Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 01.01.1925 Proper date: 01.01.1925 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource [Format]: 14.1cm x 9cm [Condition]: good - medium [Special format]: postcard [Type of support]: thin board [Process]: b/w positive, paper print, gelatin-silver Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-30.62.009 Subject The topic of the resource [Geography]: Ashanti {people} [Geography]: Africa {continent}: Ghana {modern state}: Ghana {traditional states}: Ashanti {traditional state} [Themes]: social structure and socialization: gender - age and kinship: woman: adolescent f [Themes]: anthropology of the body: adornment [Themes]: social structure and socialization: social stratification: insignia of rank [Themes]: administration and government: administration and government - general: nobility [Themes]: social structure and socialization: gender - age and kinship: woman: portrait f [Themes]: architecture and settlement: furnishings: studio background [Themes]: music - art and literature: art: textile pattern [Themes]: social structure and socialization: gender - age and kinship: woman: women's wear [Archives catalogue]: Images: D: D-30: Gold Coast. Secular themes. Social life. Types of people. Crafts. Art. Title A name given to the resource Asante-Mädchen. Asante girl. 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: 1874 Date late: 1878 Proper date: 1874-1878 Description An account of the resource Dokumente betreffend den Beginn einer Mission in Asante 1874-1878, die meisten Dokumente sind von 1874 und 1875. Die Akte kam 1925 via Missionar Nyffeler nach Basel, keine Herkunftsangabe; mit Index / Documents concerning the commencement of a Mission in Asante 1874-1878, most documents are from 1874 and 1875. The file was coming into the Basel Mission Archive through the missionary Nyffeler as intermediary, in 1925, no indication as to origin; with an index Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource 49 letters Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-10.003,12 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-10 - Miscellaneous concerning Ghana in European languages: D-10.003 - Verschiedene Dokumenten zu Ghana III Title A name given to the resource Asante-Mission https://www.bmarchives.org/files/original/100207179 76385c65b99be9c82547150998dcf1b5 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. 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Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Magnat Frères, %Basel, %%Switzerland Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 1862 Proper date: 1862 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource [Format]: 9.5cm x 7.2cm [Condition]: medium [Special format]: oval [Type of support]: paper, passepartout [Process]: ambrotype Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context QS-30.001.0387.01 Relation A related resource Group: QS-30.001.0387.01 Same images: QS-30.002.0387.01 Subject The topic of the resource [Individuals]: Asante, David (Mr) [Photographers / Photo Studios]: Magnat Frères, %Basel, %%Switzerland [Institutions]: Magnat Frères, %Basel, %%Switzerland [Themes]: religion and philosophy (general): Christianity: missionary m [Themes]: social structure and socialization: gender - age and kinship: man: portrait m [Themes]: formal description: studio [Archives catalogue]: Images: QS: QS-30: untitled Title A name given to the resource Asante, David. Asante, David. https://www.bmarchives.org/files/original/100208420 de96b0decae085c3127185b194118929 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. 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/. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Magnat Frères, %Basel, %%Switzerland Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource [Format]: 7cm x 5.2cm [Condition]: medium [Special format]: carte de visite, oval [Type of support]: cardboard [Process]: b/w positive, paper print, albumen Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context QS-30.002.0387.01 Relation A related resource Group: QS-30.001.0387.01 Same images: QS-30.001.0387.01 Subject The topic of the resource [Individuals]: Asante, David (Mr) [Photographers / Photo Studios]: Magnat Frères, %Basel, %%Switzerland [Institutions]: Magnat Frères, %Basel, %%Switzerland [Themes]: religion and philosophy (general): Christianity: missionary m [Themes]: social structure and socialization: gender - age and kinship: man: portrait m [Themes]: formal description: studio [Archives catalogue]: Images: QS: QS-30: untitled Title A name given to the resource Asante, David. Asante, David. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 26.06.1875 Proper date: 26.06.1875 Description An account of the resource In Kibi about 100 slaves have left their masters. Most have fled to the missionaries order to have explained to them what the new law means and often cannot quite believe that from now on they are free. People are also coming from other Akim villages to fetch home their ex-slave relatives. The sister and aunt of the Okyenhene have lost almost all their slaves. The Okyenhene has tried to bring back slaves by force and in most cases would have succeeded had not the mission protected them or in some cases taken them into mission employment. The slaves of the royal family have on the whole had to endure the worst treatment. Many of them say that had the Okyenhene publicly proclaimed the Emancipation and guaranteed them human treatment in the future they would have remained in his service. In other Akim villages (Asiakwa, Asuom, Begoro are cited as example) the chief has had the Proclamation read out and given the erstwhile slaves the rights of citizens. They are remaining in their towns on familiar terms with their erstwhile masters. They hear that in Fante mang slaves have taken advantage of the Proclamatieen to free themselves As for wages - in Akim the Emancipation has had no effect as yet. But since the missionaries are the only wage-employers they should in the future be no longer dependent on the whims of individual potential workers in view of the large free labour force, it should be possible to keep wages down to their old levels. In Kibi most slaves were from Akim villages, and have returned to their homes - slaves from further afield are setting out to farm, which no-one hinders in view of their plentiful land available, or are going to Akwapim where there is no shortage of employment. There is thus no danger of developing a poor proletariat, nor so far, has there been any report of robbery or violence - except in that the Okyenhene has himself been responsible for it. For the future they suggest a number of points to make the Emancipation effective: There should be colonial officials posted to every interior tribe - this would make an end to the ‘godless misconduct of the constables'. They should have the power to check the judicial activities of the chiefs in order to protect the ex-slaves and their families from roundabout persecution. They could also provide protection for the ex-slaves in a straightforward way - the mission station in Kibi already has its resources badly strained with the freed slaves staying in it. The free slaves should be assigned their own land and freed from tribute etc. - this will be better than leaving them with their earlier masters in that they will learn regular work more easily and also will be more accessible to the missionaries More schools are needed - they have had to turn away 20 ex-slave children away from the Kibi Boarding School for want of places. The regime could use the freed labour force now existing to make new roads to open up the inland areas - with roads or navigable rivers cotton could be brought to the coast from Kwahu, and Akim timber exported. If at .the same time it was made illegal to do more than give gifts to mark a marriage as is the case in Akwapim, the well-known lack of women in Akim would also be cured, since this would break the monopoly of the rich men and the women. There should also be some legal regulation over pawning - at the moment, with interest at 50-100% a pawn is virtually a permanent slave. As for the attitudes of ex-slaves and ex-masters – the slaves are of course glad about their freedom, but it is not an enthusiastic gladness as it was in the West Indian islands. The reason for this is a certain distrust of the government – the people of Akim see very little of the activities of the government, and the few who were not able to turn to the missionaries for help were often rather lost in the face of the new situation. The masters of course are not pleased, but have taken the change quietly, though here and there revenge is sought. There is not the slightest trace of revolutionary opinion in Akim. 'Through the gospel, the school and regular pursuit of their callings by the people, the Colony will be really helped.' Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource 6 pages Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-10.003,10.19 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-10 - Miscellaneous concerning Ghana in European languages: D-10.003 - Verschiedene Dokumenten zu Ghana III: D-10.003,10 - Sklaven-Emancipationskommission Title A name given to the resource Asante, Mohr and Werner to the Slave Emancipation Commission of the Basel Mission on the Gold Coast https://www.bmarchives.org/files/original/100200748 8f3dba9d481682b3d609f367be5b0b2d Map Map 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/. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Bauer, Andreas (Mr) Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 1907 Proper date: 1907 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource [Format]: 59cm x 78cm [Condition]: - [Detail]: Region [Material]: Verbund geleimt [Relevance]: + [Scale unit]: unbekannt Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-31.7a#01 Relation A related resource D-31.1#24a Subject The topic of the resource [Individuals]: Bauer, Andreas (Mr) [Geography]: Africa {continent}: Ghana {modern state}: Ghana [Geography]: Asante [Geography]: Kumase [Archives catalogue]: Maps and plans: D - Gold Coast / Ghana: D-31: D-31.7a Title A name given to the resource Asante, soweit ichs bis jetzt bereist habe. Es sind nur Orte darauf, die ich selbst bereist habe, bis jetzt 608 [...] 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: 05.04.1878 Proper date: 05.04.1878 Description An account of the resource He had returned to Akim after the court case in Accra, but had received a letter from the directing committee (G.C. Ausschuss) saying he must be posted out of Akim in view of the Governor's second letter to the Mission, which had threatened to give him over to the caprices of the Okyenhene. In spite of this he made a last visit to some of the most praising centres. The two centres where they received the best reception on this journey were Akrofufu and Kwabeng. The Abomosu baptisms - the women catechumens were not satisfactory when examined prior to baptism. The examination involved the candidates repeating the main parts of the catechism, and then answering questions designed to find out if they understood what they had said. After the examinations Asante had to settle the catechumens' marriage circumstances, and issue instructions e.g. about relations with the chief of the town. The baptisms took place in the courtyard of one of the catechumens. The 38 baptised ranged from 1 to 40 years in age, with only 3 women. The Christians' main enemies are the fetish priest and a few of the elders. On leaving, Asante gave the Christians 'according to, English law' over to the protection of the local chief. He also baptised in Tumfa, 12 people, only one woman, the ages ranging from 2 to 42. Buck held his first street preaching there - translated by Asante. On returning to Akwapim Asante met friends he had not seen for 6 years. Assessing Ata's position after the case in Accra, Asante reports also that some of his people want to depose claims that Ata acknowledges his fault in this respect, and in a public assembly said to him 'My son, I am sorry I have acted with you so. I would not have done this if other people had not instigated me to this'. Asante also reports that Ata is in financial difficulties, and links the meeting about the Okyenhene's debts (he gives the figure of 120 ounces of gold) with the bribes which the Okyenhene had distributed in Accra. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.30.XVII..216 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.30 - Ghana 1878: D-01.30.XVII. - Kjebi Title A name given to the resource Asante's Last Quarter's Report from Akim