Sarah Breedlove was born in Delta, Louisiana, on December 23, 1865. She was the fifth child of Owen and Minerva Breedlove, who were ex-slaves and sharecroppers. They lived on the Burney Plantation in Delta and died before Sarah turned eight. When Sarah was ten, she moved to Vicksburg with her sister. At the age of fourteen she married, at eighteen she had her first child and at the age of twenty she was made a widow. She moved to St. Louis with her daughter and made a living by washing laundry. Sarah soon started to notice that she was losing her hair and that other black women fac
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