A short article on the slave question in general, ending with the idea that slaves might be helped to set themselves up as farmers, but can fend for themselves and then come under mission influence in the normal way. There were many ex-slaves in the…
Advises against tempting ex-slaves into the church with material advantages, saying that they are mostly heathen, and maintain heathen customs. But with two pieces of geographical insight against the setting up of a colony on any scale - settlement…
The Apenkwa people estimate the number of 'Donkos' living in the villages and hamlets on the Accra Plains as about 1000, and Schopf himself estimates the numbers of such people in Accra at 2-3000. Schopf puts Apenkwa forward as the location of the…
Mentions that many former slaves from the interior are members of the church in Pepiase, and ‘feel very happy with us'. This says Ramseyer is evidence that while the project would no doubt go through many sad experiences, it would not be hopeless.
The slave trade south from Salaga is almost exclusively in children of the ages 7-12 years, and while there appears to be slave holding in Buem according to Clerk, in Nkonya and the strech of land southwards to Anum there are few because people are…
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…
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…
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…
(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)…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
The Nkoranza war continued. This letter is mostly taken up with reporting that the whole matter has gone back to London at Cabinet level, and according to Ramseyer is in the balance with Gladstone opposed to further annexations. Ramseyer feels…
A sequel to the letter No. 134 above. The 'mitrailleuse' is some sort of gun firing rockets. The English officers are now all on the station which they admire - several are hawing to live in the houses of the Christian families. The 400 hausas are…
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