During the year they had a case of a boy whose heathen mother was married to a Christian father and lived in the Abetifi Salem. When he was due to be promoted from the small-children’s school to the Boarding School his heathen relatives would not…
He sends a script through Basel for the Missionaire. He also mentions that he thought at first his uncle (Fritz Ramseyer) was too strict with the people, but he sees now that he is quite right in the way he goes to work.
Contains some information about his children. Their son Paul went to New Mexico to farm in June, with Ed. Perregaux' brother. Emmanuel is studying to be an architect. Rosy helps in the house.
Description of the Mission Anniversary. Some weeks before the anniversary there was almost no-one in Abetifi because everyone had gone off to try to gain some money for the missionary anniversary offering - hunting fishing and carrying loads are…
It includes a biography of Phil Kwabi. He was born a house slave, his mother having been stolen away from Akudome in Krepi by the Akwamus and sold to Akropong. (His birth date is given as 1834-6). He was given to Mader to bring up, entering the…
He writes that he worked very happily with Kwabi - he has an 'inner life' and knows how to go about things with the people. Two problems emerged - that he was too fond of settling disputes, and also fond of dispensing medicine. Ramseyer considers he…
Discusses the possibility of setting up a slave-home, and place of refuge. This has apparently been raised by Secretary Würz in a letter to Pfarrer Rohr in Bern. He seems in favour they would have to have the concurrence of whichever colonial regime…
Reports briefly on the Asante-Nkoranza war, and the fact of the troops passing through Akropong to Akim. He quotes from a letter he has received from Clerk on the subject of Dente - this says that the Nkoranza women had been sent to Krakye.
Concerns the Volta Slave trafic. This is the basis for much of the material in the Heidenbote article 1893 p.90ff. There is rather more material in the manuscript than in the printed version (which is an editorial compilation rather than a printing…
Concerns the Volta Slave trafic. This is the basis for much of the material in the Heidenbote article 1893 p.90ff. There is rather more material in the manuscript than in the printed version (which is an editorial compilation rather than a printing…
(1) The idea of buying free slave children and bringing them up he is quite against - if they buy them free this will simply stimulate the traffic, and if they do not buy they free he does not see how the mission is to get them into its hands. (2)…
By no means so opposed as Ramseyer to the idea, and points out that before the troubles in Akim there was a colony of runaway slaves from Kwahu on the station at Kukurantumi. These have since transferred themselves to Abokobi, where there is also a…
He considers that Abokobi is only one of a dozen villages inland from Accra (up to 4-5 hours) which are peopled by Gruschi, Moshi, Kasemi, Dagbama, Esase, Fulali and Tsana. These are all escaped slaves. Most claim to have escaped from Asante by way…
En passant he estimates the numbers of Mohammedans in Kpando at 2-300. The slaves whom one meets appear to have come from the regions of the River Niger in many cases, near its middle stretches, and the areas to the south (though Müller adds as a…
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