Title from electronic title page.

This electronic edition has been transcribed from a photocopy supplied by the Library of Congress and lacks Clement's portrait.

"This autobiography was written by little Sara Ovington, she employing one hour per day after school." - P. 67.

Samuel Clement worked various jobs as an adult including building a railroad, coal miner, grocery clerk, janitor, businessman and was once elected as the first African American constable in Steubenville, Ohio.

This electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digitization project's database, Documenting the American South. It is a part of the collection North American slave narratives.

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Transcribed from photocopy of: Memoirs of Samuel Spottford Clement : relating interesting experiences in days of slavery and freedom. Steubenville, Ohio : The Herald Printing Co., 1908. 67 p. : port. "April 1908".

Funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities supported the electronic publication of this title.

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