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(CRIME.) The Apprehension & Committal... of Black Murphy... The Child Stealer! With full Particulars of The Black Man's Horrible Den. Letterpress
(CRIME.) The Apprehension & Committal... of Black Murphy... The Child Stealer! With full Particulars of The Black Man's Horrible Den. Letterpress broadside, 14 3/4x9 3/4 inches; several short closed marginal tears. London: G. Smeeton, [1833]
- Notes: A broadside printing that outlines in great detail the use and abuse of street urchins and runaways by Henry Murphy, a black man. Murphy, who was apprehended in 1833, might well have served as the model for Dickens' "Fagin" in Oliver Twist. For the sake of propriety and as a staunch abolitionist, Dickens made his Fagin white.
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