Jamaican born Joy Gardner was 40 when she died after police gagged her when they arrived at her flat to deport her. Her son, who was five years old at the time, watched her die. In 1995 three policemen were found not guilty of her manslaughter.
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Accession reference: Museum of London, 2003.5/89
Themes
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Diaspora
The transatlantic slave trade was the largest forced migration of people in history. Understand how this migration has affected societies, cultures and the world we live in today…
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Legacies
Understand how the 1807 Abolition Act ended the British involvement in the slave trade but not slavery, how British women pushed for full…