Assessment
McCoy was much more of a social reformer than a missionary, hardly being concerned in his later years with converting Indians to Christianity. He ‘’attacked the system of law and custom by which Indians had been kept in bondage” and “his object was to free the Indians from those restraints.” His solution was to move the Indians beyond where they could be corrupted and exploited by Whites. But the tide of westward expansion in the U.S. was too strong and his plans failed. Still, the vision of this rude, untutored preacher and pioneer was, in the words of his biographer, ‘somewhat breathtaking.”
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