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Jeremiah F. Evarts (February 3, 1781 – May 10, 1831), also known by the pen name William Penn, was a Christian missionary, reformer, and activist for the rights of American Indians in the United States, and a leading opponent of the Indian removal policy of the United States government.
Evarts, Jeremiah (1781-1831) Early leader of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM)Evarts was an influential editor and a prominent advocate of Indian rights and civic and religious causes.
9. Dez. 2016 · Evarts knew the ins and outs of the Cherokees' relations with white governments with a thoroughness unmatched by any of his contem poraries, even his Cherokee friends themselves.
1. Dez. 1993 · Mary Young; From Revivals to Removal: Jeremiah Evarts, the Cherokee Nation, and the Search for the Soul of America. By John A. Andrew III. (Athens: University o
The moral objections to removal are evident in the writings of Jeremiah Evarts, Secretary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, the organization that established the first Christian missions among the Cherokees and Choctaws in the early 1800s.
Jeremiah Evarts, to Washington to lobby against Indian Removal. ABCFM-spon-sored missionaries were attempting to educate and Christianize southern Indians, and the ABCFM, led by Evarts, organized formidable opposition to President Jackson and his administration's policies regarding Indian Removal.10
understanding of the motivations of Jeremiah Evarts and the other like-minded supporters of the Indian. Cherokee Removal is thus im-portant not only as a chronicle of opposition but as a positive record of the highest goals and values to which a whole generation of advocates turned. Indian Removal is a primary source for his-
