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Sandy was a young slave who worked for the Clemenses in Hannibal. Mark Twain reported in his autobiography: “I used Sandy once . . . it was in ‘Tom Sawyer;’ tried to get him to whitewash the fence, but it did not work” (SLC 1897–98, 49, in MTA, 1:102). Sandy appears in chapters 1 and 2 of Tom Sawyer as Jim, “the small colored boy” (not to be confused with Jim in Huckleberry Finn, who is modeled after Daniel. Clemens recalls Sandy in “Jane Lampton Clemens” (89).
