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Miss Margaret lived all her life in Eutaw, Alabama, first as a sharecropper in the cotton fields and then as a highly regarded midwife. She attended over 3,500 home births and never lost a mother. There were times she delivered four babies a night. Prayer and motherwit were the main tools in her birth bag. “They know what they’ve got to do,” she said, “if you know how to talk to them. Give ’em love and kind words. That beats it all.”
