Английская Википедия:Cato Perkins

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Cato Perkins was an enslaved African-American man from Charleston, South Carolina who became a missionary to Sierra Leone.

Cato was enslaved by John Perkins. Cato Perkins self-emancipated by joining the British during the Siege of Charleston, and he joined General Clinton in New York and worked as a carpenter there. Perkins was evacuated to Birchtown, Nova Scotia in 1783, and he is listed in the Book of Negroes. Upon arriving in Nova Scotia, he was converted by John Marrant of the Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion, which was a Methodist splinter group. Perkins migrated to Sierra Leone, where he led a strike of carpenters against the Sierra Leone Company. Cato Perkins established the first Huntingdon's Connexion church, and later on, other Nova Scotian settler preachers established churches in the Liberated African villages. Cato Perkins died in 18; his churches are the remnant of Huntingdon's Connexion church worldwide.

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