FRANCAISAnti-Slavery International - History
1890-1909
-1897-1935, Ghana: the APS supports the creation of the Aborigines’ Rights Protection Society (ARPS), founded at Cape Coast by the chief editor of the Methodist Times, the Reverend Samuel Richard Brew Attoh-Ahuma (1875-1921), and the Fante chiefs who are worried about colonial attempts to limit their traditional land rights following a bill in 1894. Composed of Africans such as Joseph Peter Brown, a businessman of royal origins, and John Mensah Sarbah, the first qualified lawyer of Ghana, the association, which publishes a newspaper, the Gold Coast Aborigines, only uses the available constitutional and judicial means to promote the interests of the natives. Outmoded after the emergence of a nationalist movement at the start of the 1920s, the association disappears from the political scene around 1935.
-1909, United Kingdom: the BFASS and the APS merge to form the Anti-Slavery and Aborigines’ Protection Society, whose first general secretary is a former Baptist missionary in Africa, the Reverend John Harris.
