StoryCorps presents

Labor of Love

Name: Labor of Love
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2022-12-01

directed by Richard O'Connor

“If somebody needed help, Granny was going.”

20223mDocumentary

StoryCorps presents

Labor of Love

directed by Richard O'Connor

“If somebody needed help, Granny was going.”

20223mDocumentary

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Mary Stepp Burnette Hayden was born into enslavement in Black Mountain, North Carolina. She was 7 years old when she was freed. She stayed in Black Mountain and became a midwife, delivering several hundred babies including her own grandchildren. Her granddaughter, Mary Othella Burnette, came to StoryCorps with her daughter, Debora Hamilton Palmer, to honor the family matriarch. [Overview Courtesy of Storycorps]