Engraving from the book Quatre ans chez les Achantis : journal de MM. Ramseyer et Kuhne pendant le temps de leur captivité
Johannes Kühne, Friedrich August Ramseyer
Paris: Sandoz & Fischbacher ; Neuchâtel: Librairie J. Sandoz ; Neuchâtel: L.-A. Borel. 1876, p. 40. Reproduction
MEG Library, PR AF 35
The engravings in the Journal illustrate the suffering endured by Rose Ramseyer, her husband and
J. Kühne as well as the slave trade and human sacrifices which terrified them in the Asante kingdom’s capital. At this end of the 19th century, Protestant readers set up the authors of this "best-seller" of missionary literature as "martyr heroes". Adaptations of their "adventures" would then be published one after the other. F. Morin/MEG