Labor of Love (2022)
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]
- Released
- 2022-12-01
- Genres
- Documentary
- Runtime
- 3 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Richard O'Connor