John Ball (clergyman)
John Ball was an African American Methodist preacher in Shelburne, Nova Scotia. John Ball is recorded in the Book of Negroes as one of the 3000 African Americans who escaped to the British lines during the American Revolution.
Read more about John Ball (clergyman): Life in Nova Scotia and Immigration To Sierra Leone
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