The thing is Foxy, when you reach a conclusion (there was slavery in colonial Australia) and then go looking for someone to confirm your pre- judged conclusion, that's not research. The search for a confirmatory veneer of scholarship is indeed the opposite of research and absolutely the opposite of the reverence for the truth.

This is confirmed by your absolute refusal to apply these made up definitions to all circumstances when doing so reaches conclusions you don't like. If you believed these confected definitions, then you'd apply them in all circumstances including pre-contact aboriginal society. But since that would then force you to agree that that society also had slavery, indeed a much worse form than colonial society, you rapidly run in the opposite direction.

And that, Foxy, is the opposite of research.

I said that Paul 1405 could barely read and write, and sure enough:

“you and ‘I’ instead of you and ‘me’”

“ ‘ suckers’, instead of ‘sucker’s”

Then he bites the hand that feeds him and enables his Green waffling by calling it a “right wing run little forum”.

Goodbye and up yours to him and his batty old girlfriend, whom mhaze dealt with very well above.

Dear Paul,

Being competent at reference work and doing research helps
having knowledge of the information landscape.

One knows that a Google search is just one avenue of
search - and there are many, many more.

It is important that people ought to get all the information
about an issue not just limited information and only one
opinion.

Still you can't use logic to dissuade someone who did not
use logic to reach their viewpoint in the first place.

As for ttbn?

"I've got a bitter enemy
His heart to hate he gave
I'm sure he'd like to see me die
So he could dance upon my grave

But such is a quirk of fate
Because the poison in his heart
May just hasten his miserable life
And force him to depart".

He's a troubled soul.

All we can do is wish him well and let
him fizzle and splutter in his own grease.

Compensation IS being paid as remittances.

Britain abolished slavery early and after 1810 the Royal Navy freed slaves on slave ships owned by other world powers including France and the US.

From the late 1940s Britain welcomed immigrants (who were descendants of slaves) from Africa and the Caribbean who enjoyed much higher pay than people remaining in Africa and the Caribbean. These descendants of slaves often sent and still send money “remittances” from Britain to their relatives in Africa and the Caribbean.

" you rapidly run in the opposite direction. And that, Foxy, is the opposite of research."

Still running Foxy?

Thank you ttbn, for the lesson in English grammar, using the word "I" when one should use "me", that is earth shattering, coming from an Old Fart like you. Now I'll let you get back to pulling the wings of flies on this little nondescript forum that you incessantly post on. What a grub!