Mortgage Burning at the A.M.E. Zion Church, Atlantic Street, Hackensack, New Jersey
[Hackensack, N.J.]: The Riverside Press, [1906]. Printed handbill, 9 x 6 inches. Minor wear and toning to edges. An unrecorded handbill emblematic of an intriguing practice by mortgage holders in the late-19th and early-20th centuries. Mortgage burning services and celebrations were particularly popular in African-American churches, and involved just what..... More