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…
The effects of the Emancipation have so far been small - only a few slaves have made use of it, and most masters have only lost one or two. He has no certain information about happenings in the interior or in Fante, but nothing striking has been…
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…
He stresses that he personally has knowledge only of the Akropong area. The emancipation has had effects in only isolated cases in Akwapim - people talk about 50 cases, and even if you double this number this is very few among so many slaves. In the…
In reply to the Basel question what practical results the proclamation of slave-emancipation has had on the slaves themselves, Dieterle writes that in Tutu, Asantema (Obosomase), Afwerase, Aburi and many farming villages, on the whole only individual…
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