Madam C. J. Walker, who was born with the name Sarah Breedlove in 1867, was never a slave because slavery ended in Louisiana in January 1863 with the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation. Her parents, Owen and Minerva Breedlove, and her older siblings were born as enslaved people. She was the first child in her family to be born as a free person.
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He was 42 years old when he became president.
She had 1 sister Louvenia and 4 brothers Alexander, James, Solomon, and Owen Jr.
Benjamin Harrison was 55 years old when he became the 23rd President of the United States.
When she was 14 when she married her first husband, Moses Mcwilliams. Around 1905 she married a man named Charles Joseph Walker. Her original name was Sarah, but after she married Charles she changed her name to Madam C.J Walker.
Phillis Wheatley married a free slave who managed a small general stoar. His names was John Peters.