Cato Perkins was an enslaved African-American man from Charleston, South Carolina, who became a missionary to Sierra Leone.
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.
The new life in Sierra Leone was not what the group had expected and Perkins petitioned the SLC to improve Freetown;[1][4] In 1793 Perkins travelled with Isaac Anderson to London to make their petition heard.
[5] By 1800, inflated price-fixing was leading to food riots and Perkins negotiated between the rioters and the council.