Labor of Love (2022)

Name: Labor of Love
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2023-01-12
Duration: 3 min
Cast: Mary Othella Burnette

Movie"If somebody needed help, Granny was going."

NR 3 minDec 1st, 2022Documentary

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]

StarringMary Othella Burnette

DirectorRichard O'Connor

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