Samuel Spottford Clement (Q490596)
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Samuel Spottford Clement
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Slave
Educator
Autobiographer / Memoirist
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Samuel Spottford Clement
Born Enslaved. Worked as a teacher, coal miner, wagon driver, and church janitor, and became the first African American to hold public office in his county in Ohio when he was elected in 1895 to be the Steubenville constable.