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Cato Perkins
Biography
United States
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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.
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