an African-American Methodist preacher in Shelburne, Nova Scotia.
John Ball went around preaching to African American expatriates in order to convert them to Methodism.
Ball himself was converted to Methodism by another black preacher Moses 'Daddy' Wilkinson who was from South Carolina.
Alongside other African-American preachers Boston King, David George, Moses Wilkinson, and Cato Perkins, John Ball immigrated to Sierra Leone and became a settler in Sierra Leone.
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