| Summary: | By examining the annual records produced for, and published in, Svenska Missionsförbundet’s annual meeting protocol, this essay aims to analyze how Swedish missionaries located in the Congo Free State created the image of themselves and various people around them from missionary stations in the area surrounding the Congo river. In its essence, the results of the study show that the missionaries use the missionary stations as fostering institutions, where Congolese boys and young men are taught civilized manners. No matter their effort and achievement though, the notion of racial differences embedded in the missionaries, locks the Congolese men in a subordinate state from which they may not leave.
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