Well, Isaac Netwon supported the slave trade by holding the equivalent of millions of pounds in shares in the South Sea Company: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S

Well, Isaac Netwon supported the slave trade by holding the equivalent of millions of pounds in shares in the South Sea Company: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Sea_Company https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Sea_Company Liebniz wasn't much better: "Leibniz’s early views were no more savoury; ‘barbarians,’ whom he considered ‘beasts’ (see Perkins, 111), could be destroyed in order to civilize them." https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/kant-leibniz/ https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/kant-leibniz/ Obviously not all mathematicians espoused problematic views, but it's worth demonstrating sensitivity to this aspect if it broadens the appeal of the subject.