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MISSION TO ASHANTEE. 
If a woman involves herself in a palaver, she involves her family, 
but not her husband. 
None but a captain can sell his wife, and he, only, if her family 
are unable to redeem her by the repayment of the marriage fee. 
The property of the wife is distinct, and independent of the 
husband, though the King is the heir to it. 
None but a captain can put his wife to death for infidelity, and 
even then he is expected to accept a liberal offer of gold from the 
family, for her redemption. To intrigue with a wife of the King's 
is death. 
If the family of a woman are able and willing, on her report of 
her dislike to her husband, or his ill-treatment of her, to tender 
him the marriage fee, he must accept it, and the woman returns to 
her family, but may not marry again. 
If a husband is not heard of by his wife for three years, she 
may marry again, and if the first husband returns, the claim of the 
second is the better ; but all the children of the after marriage are 
considered the property of the first husband, and may be pawned 
by him. 
Those accused of witchcraft, or having a devil, are tortured to 
death. 
The good treatment of slaves is in some degree provided for, by 
the liberty they have of dashing or transferring themselves to any 
freeman ; whom they enjoin to make them his property by invoking 
his death if he does not ; an imperative appeal. 
