Labor of Love
MovieTitle | Labor of Love |
User score | 0 |
Release date | Dec 1, 2022 |
Genre | Documentary |
Director | Richard O'Connor |
Production country | US |
Production companies | StoryCorps |
Run time | 3 min. |
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]