Why Lewis Hamilton& #39;s gesture is so important:

The Countries @F1 visits are directly tied to subjugation and murder of African people and theft of their homeland.

This thread will detail the crimes of the host nations of tracks that the 1 Black Driver, @LewisHamilton races on.
4https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇪🇸" title="Flagge von Spanien" aria-label="Emoji: Flagge von Spanien">. Simply put, the Asiento was a contract granted by the Spanish government to merchants or governments the right supply slaves to Spanish America. It was highly coveted by the https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇬🇧" title="Flagge des Vereinigten Königreiches" aria-label="Emoji: Flagge des Vereinigten Königreiches">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇳🇱" title="Flagge der Niederlande" aria-label="Emoji: Flagge der Niederlande"> amongst others. It gave them a chance to make a big windfall on the backs of captured Africans
5.https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇪🇸" title="Flagge von Spanien" aria-label="Emoji: Flagge von Spanien"> It is estimated 400,000 Africans were transported by the Spanish to Spanish colonies. The voyages they were subjected to often had fatality rates of 75% or higher. Due to torture, starvation, murder or suicide by throwing themselves overboard.
2https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇨🇦" title="Flagge von Kanada" aria-label="Emoji: Flagge von Kanada">.En-masse to Canada, like how the US had done. However the attempts were frustrated by war preventing this and the climate of Canada not suiting the plantation model found in warmer climates such as the southern Americas or Carribean
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇫🇷" title="Flagge von Frankreich" aria-label="Emoji: Flagge von Frankreich">1 French Grand Prix. The Crimes of France are immeasurable. Not only big players in the Transatlantic Slave Trade, but also chief profiteers in The Scramble For Africa (the 20th century colonisation of Africa) which through murder and deceit.They stole the wealth of West Africa
3https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇫🇷" title="Flagge von Frankreich" aria-label="Emoji: Flagge von Frankreich"> A major reason for this was the brutal conditions Africans had to endure during sugar-cane production. Africans were worked to death at a HIGHER rate then they could give birth meaning, the population would have shrank were it not for the constant flow of enslaved Africans
5https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇫🇷" title="Flagge von Frankreich" aria-label="Emoji: Flagge von Frankreich"> In 1789, Haiti produced 60%of the entire world& #39;s coffee and 40% of the sugar imported by France and Britain. It was the most valuable asset in the French Colonial empire and it was the wealthiest colony in the Caribbean

France would not give it up easily.
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇫🇷" title="Flagge von Frankreich" aria-label="Emoji: Flagge von Frankreich">6 What followed was a bloody 12 year war which cost 200,000 Haitian African lives (Nearly half of the slave population in Haiti)
The French sent a detachment of 86 frigates and 60,000 men. Led by their Black General, Touissant Louverture, Haitians fought to the death to
7https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇫🇷" title="Flagge von Frankreich" aria-label="Emoji: Flagge von Frankreich"> repel French forces who arrived to enslave them once again. French elites like Charles Leclerc, who were sent to recapture the Island by Napoleon and reinstate slavery would ultimately fail in this objective.

This is the most successful rebellion in written human history.
8https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇫🇷" title="Flagge von Frankreich" aria-label="Emoji: Flagge von Frankreich"> But France& #39;s lust for African Wealth and bodies wasn& #39;t over. France forced Haiti,under threat of further invasion to pay ex slaveholders 150 million gold francs, an enormous sum which took more than 100 years to pay off. France, looking to recuperate it& #39;s Haitian losses were
9https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇫🇷" title="Flagge von Frankreich" aria-label="Emoji: Flagge von Frankreich"> Also "charitable philanthropists& #39; in the Scramble for Africa and also present at the Berlin Conference. More on that shortly.
2https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇬🇧" title="Flagge des Vereinigten Königreiches" aria-label="Emoji: Flagge des Vereinigten Königreiches"> Islands such as The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Antigua, Dominica, St Lucia, Trinidad, Guyana, Jamaica and Grenada (Where @LewisHamilton& #39;s family is from) amongst several others.
5https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇬🇧" title="Flagge des Vereinigten Königreiches" aria-label="Emoji: Flagge des Vereinigten Königreiches"> British sailors (amongst other nations) crammed their ships full of African men, women and children. A carefully worked out quota to meet the demand of the markets they would be sold at in the Americas. They were insured by banks like how one would insure their car or home
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