Labor of Love
"If somebody needed help, Granny was going."
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]
| Release Date | December 1, 2022 | |
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| Status | Released | |
| Original Title | Labor of Love | |
| Runtime | 3min | |
| Budget | — | |
| Revenue | — | |
| Language | — | |
| Original Language | English | |
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| Production Companies | StoryCorps | |