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John Ball was an early convert of Moses Wilkinson to the Wesleyan Methodist faith. Ball became a preacher and traveled throughout the province spreading the Methodist message. He was quite possibly the black preacher described by Marrant in his account of his conflict with the Wesleyans of Birchtown. Ball once crossed paths with William Black, the leader of the Nova Scotia Methodists, while traveling the province. Ball was relegated to a separate building, and not permitted to preach to the main congregation. Simeon Perkins did make it to the separate gathering where Ball preached, and said that he though that Ball did very well 'considering his colour and station'. Ball became one of the leaders appointed by John Clarkson to help organize the blacks traveling to Sierra Leone. Once they arrived at the colony, Clarkson appointed him as one of the three representatives to resolve minor disputes and bring important problems to his attention. There, he remained an important Methodist preacher and deputy to Moses Wilkinson. |
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