Missionary work and imperial aims never fully coincided

Evidence

For colonial administrators, however, the most problematic origins for the native petit bourgeoisie were the mission schools. From the fifteenth century and before, the missions had all along served as a part of the rationale for European colonialist and imperialist aspirations. Still, the correspondence between the ends of missionary work and the goals of imperialism had never been entirely true. For one, the missionaries themselves, in the case of English imperialism, were often recruited from colonized peoples: that is, Scots, Irish, and Welsh. Such soldiers for Christ could be often quite ambivalent about the colonial power. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 854

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s knowledge of settler colonialism and how subject populations (Scots/Irish/Welsh vs English) complicate colonizer/colonized binaries.