Includes a report of an incident-in which he apologised to a man for failing to return a visit in the customary way - and a report of locusts in the Anum area not dated but almost certainly during the preceding quarter. He describes a visit to a sick…
There is little desire for education in Buem and the scholars can only be kept in the school by love and coaxing. God is working by degrees in the hearts of the community - one confessed (in the preparation period for Holy Communion) that he had once…
121 baptisms (90 adults +31 children) of heathen over the whole area, a new spirit in many communities, and 23 exclusions. European missionaries - Obrecht and Lehmann left for work in Akwapim, Martin returned to the station from his furlough in…
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…
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