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…
Reports a campaign to tighten up the teachers' control of the school, stopping the pupils going off to Kibi without permission e.g., and making sure that evening studies were supervised. A subscript, by J.M. Müller adds that the school was certainly…
5 young men of the village of Apinaman (South of Kibi) have announced themselves as catechists. Preaching in Kibi is suffering from a great decrease in population due not only to the effects of the Emancipation, but also to many families moving out…
Discusses in brief the opportunities for expansion in Akim. He is making preparations to station a man in Asiakwa. Fankyeneko has also indicated a strong wish for a teacher and there are 9 catechumens there. Apedwa also asks for a teacher, and though…
Contains the information that the Kukurantumi chief had for a time been attending their street preaching, but, that be had been criticised for this by the fetish priest who tried to excite the people of the town against him.
Describes the difficulties when as many as 20 of the pupils claim to be sick in the morning. His picture is in fact one of pupils eager for the vacation to commence and not strongly motivated to do school work. 7 boys stayed in the charge of the Kibi…
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…
Includes the point that Buck has arrived on the station, as has Cat. Anoba and pastor (deacon) Nath. Date. The numbers in the Christian community have risen from 56 to 108 (Kibi alone) with 80 communicants, 3 non-communicants, 25 children and 11…
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…
4 women have newly come forward into the catechumenate. The other catechumens are receiving almost daily instruction. Asante is running a night school (in addition to earlier instituted Sunday school), in the former many members and catechumens have…
The pupils are from several inland tribes, and brought by their parents - not as before recruited after hard work by the missionaries, In fact many boys had to be turned away. 44 is the largest number they can accommodate. Most of the new pupils are…
Personnel on the station now includes Cat, Tim. Mullings, and Cat. C.L. Meyer. During the year the numbers in the community had increased from 14 to 56, there were 35 communicants and 4 children, 17 non-communicants. There were 14 catechumens as he…
This the covering letter forwarding the following reports to Basel. Mader summarises the information given by the missionaries. He comments the Akim case shows the Government should intervene there 'our stations are not free cities'. In a subscript…
A reply based on information received from 'different' people, and concerning the position in the Ada area. What practical effects have the Emancipation had? From almost every master some slaves have gone, from one of the chief merchants e.g. 12,…
Some slaves have come to the government to be declared free - the majority of these out of laziness, rather than from any desire to be self-sufficient. Another group have come to be declared free, and then Imam returned to their masters. The…
In the Basel Mission area the effect of the Emancipation is so far limited. Abokobi in the past has been a place of flight for slaves, but fewer slaves have been coming recently as in former years. The Proclamation will only become known by degrees…
With only one or two exceptions no slaves have left their masters in Krobo (Schönfeld bases this on conversations with 'different Christians and heathens'). In respect of the question about poor proletariat and bands of robbers Schönfeld reports that…
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