To Kill a Mockingbird
Chapter 12
Why is the church named first purchase
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The church is called First Purchase because it was paid for with the former slaves' first earnings.
It was an ancient paint-peeled frame building, the only church in Maycomb with a steeple and bell, called First Purchase because it was paid for from the first earnings of freed slaves.
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