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Richard O'Connor

Labor of Love

  • Documentary

If somebody needed help, Granny was going.

RELEASE

2022-12-01

BUGET

N/A

LENGTH

3 min

Description

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]