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Labor of Love (2022)
Directed by Richard O'Connor
“If somebody needed help, Granny was going.”
Documentary · 3m
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]
Cast
Crew
- Director
- Richard O'Connor
- Producer
- Savannah Winchester
Details
- Release date
- 2022-12-01
- Runtime
- 3m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- EN
- Production
- StoryCorps