>
>Wrong premise. They often arrived _before_ the European colonial rule
>was established, at least in East Africa.
>
>Another thing: they often tried to subvert the colonial rule of the
>other colonial power cf. European missionaries opposing Arab-run slave
>trade in East Africa or English missionaries opposing the treatment of
>Africans by the Dutch in South Africa.
>
>Wojtek
>
Yeah. That gets ignored a lot. Catholic missionaries in the New World were
sometimes bitterly opposed to exploitation of the natives.
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