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…
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