An uncomfortable historical truth is often glossed over: until 1772, it
was legal to buy, own, and sell human beings in Great Britain. Newton
knew that the country’s prosperity depended on the international trade
in enslaved people, and he profited by investing in companies that
carried it out. For fine-tuning his gravitational theories, he solicited
observations of local tides from merchants stationed in trading posts.
And when he was meticulously weighing gold at the Mint, he must have
been aware that it had been dug up by Africans whose friends and
relatives were being shipped westward across the Atlantic, where they
were forced to cultivate sugar plantations, labor down silver mines, and
look after affluent Europeans.
http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/180089
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