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Madam C. J. Sarah Breedlove Essay

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“An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he’ll quickly learn how to chew it,” said by Roy Ash. An entrepreneur takes risk that the general populace is afraid to take. The masses do not like to gamble away their savings for an invention causing them to struggle to survive as a human, the struggle becoming too much to handle, especially with a child to take care of.
Yet, regarding an entrepreneur, a man, a modern man, is always part of the definition. The entrepreneurship market was not a place that women could reigned. Although the modern age has now enticed women to enter the market, men remain dominant. In spite of these modern times, a working woman is unheard of in the 1890s. Women needed to stay behind in the house raising the children and having children; the man was the one to work. Burning with a different desire, Sarah Breedlove, a.k.a. Madam …show more content…

She was the first and only child of five that was born free. She did not toil and rot as a slave had done. Never given the chance to be a slave, which I am sure Sarah’s parents, Owen and Minerva, appreciated.
Yet her family was poor and newly freed slaves. They needed work, so continued to work in a plantation as a laborer that is payed little to nothing, close to a slave. Her parents died from disease, or perhaps, exhaustion of living so much of their lives as a slave, took their life. She was only seven and her siblings had already moved on. Her sister, Louvinia, took her in with her husband to Vicksburg. She worked as a housemaid and did not have a chance at school. Louvinia’s husband mistreated Sarah. Forced into a marriage to escape him at the age of fourteen, Sarah left her sister. Moses McWilliams took her in as his wife. In June 6, 1885, A’Lelia McWilliams was born. Two years later Moses died. Sarah left with her daughter to St. Louis with her two older brothers, who were barbers at the

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