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"Motherwit" and "common sense" were the watchwords of Onnie Lee
Logan's career as a lay midwife in Mobile County, Alabama. Although
she received little formal education, endured the Depression and
faced a racist society, Onnie Lee Logan experienced her life as the
triumphant fulfillment of a dream to be one of those who could
bring babies into the world, as her mother and grandmother had done
before her. Her story, told in the soft, now vanishing dialect of
the Deep South, is powerful and fascinating oral history. Motherwit
follows her life through her work as a servant for a wealthy Mobile
family, her troubled marriage during the Depression, and her
struggle to become a licensed midwife. We watch as she delivers the
babies of both black and white women of Alabama--losing only one
baby in 40 years. Onnie Lee Logan's forbearance in the face of the
crushing prejudice of the rural South makes inspiring and
unforgettable reading. When she passed away in 1995, the New York
Times declared her a "folk hero," and Time called her book "a
feminist classic." Filled with startling drama and profound wisdom,
Motherwit is an important contribution to African-American history.
"An amazing story. A heroic woman and life after my own heart."
Alice Walker "To have told her own story, to have borne this
eloquent witness to her life is Onnie Lee Logan's final triumph."
Ellen Douglas in the Washington Post Book World "Oral history
doesn't come much better than this." Booklist "Beautiful...her
passion rings through in every line." Los Angeles Times
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