Letter from King Leopold II of Belgium to Colonial Missionaries in 1883
Dear Rev. Fathers and Compatriots,
The task that is given to you to fulfil is very delicate and requires much tact. You will go certainly to evangelize, but your evangelization must inspire above all Belgium interests. Your principal objective in our mission in the Congo and all over Africa is never to teach the niggers to know God, this they know already. They speak and submit to us, and what else I don't know.
