Madam CJ Walker and Sarah Breedlove were the same person because Sarah Breedlove was her birth name. She was born in 1867 in Louisiana.
Contrary to / unlike her parents and her siblings, Sarah was born free because Lincoln had issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
At 7 years old, Sarah moved in with her sister because her parents had died.
At 14 years old, she married and she had a daughter.
Later, she went to live with her brothers because her husband had died.
She worked as a washerwoman because she needed money to send her daughter to school.
Vocabulary:
Siblings: fratrie
Move in: emménager
Move (to): déménager
Daughter: fille
Washerwoman: blanchisseuse
Need: avoir besoin de
Unlike / Contrary to: contrairement à / à l’inverse de
