Labor of Love (2022)

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