A Short Biography: Sarah Breedlove

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Sarah Breedlove (Madam C.J Walker) was born on December 23, 1919 in in Delta, LA to the family of (sharecropper)slave workers name Owen and Minerva Breedlove.she was the fifth born of four sibling name Louvenia,Owen,Solomon, James and Alexander Breedlove. After parents passing, Sarah was sent to live with her older sister Louvenia, and her brother-in-law. The Three moved away to Vicksburg, Mississippi in 1877, where Sarah picked cotton and was likely employed doing household work.But there was no files of documentation of her exist of her employment. At age 14 Sarah escaped from her Plantation where she worked and her mistreatment that was endured from her brother-in-law. Later Sarah then married her husband name Moses McWilliams.On June 6,

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