Labor of Love Trailer (2022)
"If somebody needed help, Granny was going." 01 December 2022 Factual 3 mins
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]
Watch the official Labor of Love 2022 trailer in HD below.