Madame C. J. Walker was born Sarah Breedlove from Owen and Minerva Breedlove on a cotton plantation. Her parents were recently freed slaves; therefore, Sarah, the 5th child, was free born. In 1875, her mother died, and her father passed the following year due to unknown causes, which made Sarah a 7 year old orphan. Sarah was sent to live with her sister Louvinia and brother-in law. In 1877, the three moves to Vicksburg, Mississippi where Sarah picked cotton and most likely employed with household work. At age 14, Sarah married a man named Moses McWilliams to escape her harshed working environment and mistreatment from her stepbrother. On June 6, 1885, she gave birth to her daughter A'Leila. After her husband dies 2 years later, she moves to St. Louis, Missouri. There, she worked as a washed woman for $1.50 a day-- just enough to send A'Leila to public school. Not long after, she meets her second husband, Charles J. Walker who was in advertising and later promoted her hair care business.…