some will go to nova scotia, some will go to new brunswick, and some will go to nova scotia -- excuse me, to trinidad. those who go to trinidad are overwhelmed associate with the marines and they are settled in particular communities known as company counts. they were given each their own village. and the noncommissioned officers, colonial marines, then became the local magistrates of these communities. they became the local readers who were responsible for maintaining order and determining justice in these communities. so in the end it's one big escape to trinidad, which is organized with the help of the british. another question here. >> thank you for that very insightful presentation. question, did you perchance run into any letters from trinidad from these refugees about their experience, you know, with a letter going -- i would suspect it would be difficult coming from the other direction. >> i did not find any from trinidad. i found letters that came from scotland, from london. i found the accounts of a former slave who ended up in spain. so while i say that they wen weo trinida

preston nova scotia. where is nova scotia? wears preston? a black township was formerly enslaved people that settled there after the war between 12 to comprise a majority. near halifax. now thriving as a free man he wanted his former owner to know it. so he wrote this letter now i realize this is a struggle in the back row. probably a struggle in the front row so i will read it. this is why reid class -- wear glasses are read letters for a living. >> sir, i take this opportunity to write these lines to inform you how you situated here. i have a shop and a set of tools of my own income doing very well. when i was with you, you treated me very ill. for that reason i take the liberty of informing you that i am doing as well as you if not better. [laughter] when i was with you, i worked very hard and do neither gave meet monday nor any satisfaction. but since i have been here, have been able to make gold and silver as well as you. the night that copley stopped me he was very strong but i showed him that subtlety was far preferable to strength an

with the free black community, the former black patriots and then when nova scotia did not work out, they went to sierra leone and settled there. that tells a former story of american history and george washington than simply george washington chop on the terror -- the cherrywnee and did not tree and did not tell a lie. tavis: this is six weeks, every time and a different episode of "the african americans: many rivers to cross," brought to us by professor gates. back to your wine earlier of the data brought to us by the southern poverty law center about what is not being taught in schools, help me understand why you feel this will be or can be? the first thing you have to do is provide a well researched product. something that conforms to the highest scholarly standards and the highest standards of production. we have done that. all i can do is provide them because my first hat is i am a teacher but i am an activist. influential activists like you and the black congressional caucus, all those legislatures and organizations like the naacp and that national urban league to join with me

. >> so did i because my importants were from nova scotia. >> rose: do they tell stories in nova scotia? >> yes they're oral raconteurs, mostly embarrassing stories about other people in the family. >> rose: one of the things you've predicted -- we're straight into biography here. one of the things you wrote about was sex enhancement drugs. >> and? >> rose: well, where'd that come from? (laughs) >> out of the newspaper, basically. >> rose: really? what is it, viagra, all that? >> it was post-viagra. viagra had already been invented and there were a million viagra jokes making the rounds. you've heard some of them. >> rose: i did. >> but people then started working on various other -- but this is a very old concept. it used to be called aphrodisiac >> rose: indeed. >> so there's folklore about that. >> rose: because you're so well read, are there aphrodisiacs that come from some plant and growing only in nova scotia? (laughter) >> i think you should ask them. and if it did they weren't going to tell you! they wanted to keep that to themselves. >> rose: we'll go harvest that place. but, i

the mid-atlantic can't move much because of the blocking area of low pressure over maine and nova scotiaringing in the northerly winds, the warm southerly winds on the east side and on the delmarva, 70-plus at ocean city. we'll be stuck in the 50s with these waves of moisture coming n. you can see this on the futurecast. definitely some lulls at time. other times some moderate rain showers. here we are at 5:00. so looks wet for the drive home. more rain tonight into tomorrow as well. and this rain will be on and off, i think even into the weekend the threat of showers, maybe not as intense as today and tonight and tomorrow but will still be with us both saturday and sunday as this storm will be slow to move. so yellow alerts today and tomorrow for the rain. outdoor activities will be very difficult to get in. could be a soggy flight for football tomorrow night. 59 degrees with periods of rain and drizzle today. 57 tonight. more on and off rain and drizzle, 64 tomorrow with more on and off rain and drizzle. by saturday more showers around. probably not as many so we'll up the temperatures

nova scotia has found 0 millimeters of rainfall the past 24 hours and looks like the system is moving away. good news. another system below it will likely travel northeast and hit similar areas by friday afternoon with showers. heavy rain on friday. another system got behind it is pooling lots of cold wave air from canada and that's creating some winter advisories posted in the upper midwest region. some of the higher el visievati will find about 30 centimeters of snowfall. western kansas, oklahoma, freeze watches are posted and, hard freeze watches posted in western kansas so protect your crops and also, sensitive vegetations. here are your temperatures. 9 for a high in winnipeg. looking like winter across these areas. summerlike los angeles at 27 degrees. and autumn foliage and around these areas probably find nice drive for the weekend with those colored trees on your way. now, here in europe, a quick look. the balkans and black sea region, really unstable conditions. that's pooling into return russia. southern scandinavian peninsula will see wintry precipitation and the heaviest s

the front that came through yesterday with the strong and severe storms, that is now through nova scotia and down across the east coast cutting across florida. we were watching a coastal low developing. you see a kink in the cloud right here off shore georgia. this is going to ride up that way making for a wet day along the outer banks, maybe myrtle beach or wilmington, maybe you know them enjoying a fall week on the outer banks, not a good day for them. for us throwing high clouds our way. as it comes up we'll see a situation we see in the fall. high pressure will be up over new england. it will come up the coast and be blocked and forced back inland. superstorm was like that. clouds 6:00 here. more breaks north and west. tonight partly to mostly cloudy. we'll be back in the 50s request some 40s -- with some 40s watching the rain down south. you'll notice it coming into southeastern virginia. here at noon tomorrow, maybe into the northern neck, the tim of st. mary's county. we'll see a few showers well south of us through the afternoon and then watch what happens tomorrow night as the m

broker of all that you've got no dollar euro will be left behind and inflation deflation a couple scotia will take every last nickel and dime. it was a. very hard take a. chance to get along here there's a lot happening that fact would that make their lives. if the people. i know c.n.n. the m.s.m. b.c. fox news have taken some not slightly but the fact is i admire their commitment to cover all sides of the story just in case one of them happens to be accurate. that was funny but it's close and for the truth and might think. it's because when full attention and the mainstream media works side by side the joke is actually on here. and our teen years we have a different brain. ok because the news of the world just is not this funny i'm not laughing dammit i'm not how. you guys talk to the jokes will hand out to me that i'm. maybe you as you don't know if you don't pay chorused you know response to really. knows everyone in my life that i cared about their goal but when that happened i came askin well. i was national champion in track and field and also i was able to go and qualify for the o

, services that are sometimes frontline, saving lives, for instance, as happened recently in nova scotiasson canada, nick lopocaro, is in the image of his company. he's very entrepreneurial, very efficient, but also quite reassuring, like a doctor with good bedside manner. here's nick lopocaro. nick lopocaro, i was amused when i read - it's a definition; i don't know if you gave it out, but "the biggest company you never heard of," because very often on this set, in this series, we call them iceberg companies - they're below the waterline, they're huge, and they're very important. if you take them away, everything changes, but you don't realize it. mckesson does have a public persona, and i think it's growing, but let's start with that. what does it do? - mckesson today, i would tell you, is a healthcare solutions provider in canada. my experience with the company - i've been with the company now a little over 10 years, and i think if you were to look at us 10 years ago, for those of us in the industry would have identified us as a wholesale distribution company. we picked, packed, and s

, services that are sometimes frontline, saving lives, for instance, as happened recently in nova scotiaand the man who heads mckesson canada, nick lopocaro, is in the image of his company. he's very entrepreneurial, very efficient, but also quite reassuring, like a doctor with good bedside manner. here's nick lopocaro. nick lopocaro, i was amused when i read - it's a definition; i don't know if you gave it out, but "the biggest company you never heard of," because very often on this set, in this series, we call them iceberg companies - they're below the waterline, they're huge, and they're very important. if you take them away, everything changes, but you don't realize it. mckesson does have a public persona, and i think it's growing, but let's start with that. what does it do? - mckesson today, i would tell you, is a healthcare solutions provider in canada. my experience with the company - i've been with the company now a little over 10 years, and i think if you were to look at us 10 years ago, for those of us in the industry would have identified us as a wholesale distribution company

two upper classroom in nova scotia and a kid was teased and aggressively treated because of a pink shirt and they wore pink shirts and everyone in the school wore a pink shirt and once a year kids wore pink shirts to school and kids started a group in iowa and nobody knows the identity and started twitter and tweeted to show the support for the person treated badly on twitter. that is more normative and if we share that information with our kids then they will respond in kind. they will be encouraged. >> and i will leave you with that thought. i think anne got it right and if i leave you with that thought that alice is doing is broadcasting this idea of you speak up when you see bullying occur, and what we're doing is taking the power of our platform that reaches almost a billion people what you all with us need to do is come up with programs that enable that to happen. this is the most inspiring thing i have seen and we need to replicate that in every high school around the world. >> i don't know if adults can do it. i think we have to create the space. we have to give them space to do

all that you've got no dollar euro yet a drop will be left behind and inflation deflation a couple scotia will take a realistic well done. well told me my language or what i will only react to situations i have read the reports i'm likely to put in the know i will leave them to the state department to comment on your letter point. to the security of a car is on the docket no going to. do no more weasel words. when you need a direct question be prepared for a change when you're done you should be ready for a. freedom of speech and a little down the freedom to. this is our sea welcome back and our poor in france of erosions the n.s.a. has spied on millions of its citizens has forced washington to make one with strongest ambitions admissions rather yet regarding its surveillance practices after a phone conversation between barack obama and president francois hollande the white house considered the latest claims raise legitimate questions in just a single month the agency automatically intercepted more than seventy million calls while also logging text messages along with the general public b

this guy in the mid-atlantic has nowhere to go due to the blocking high over nova scotia. the combination driving the stiff wind out of the northeast and north for us and that's going to be the case the next couple of days with little change. one to two inches locally more than that rain over the next couple of days. 59 degrees today. that may be optimistic. periods of rain, drizzle, a stiff breeze, yellow alert. tonight 57. temperatures don't move much. tomorrow perhaps a little milder, 64 with more rain and drizzle, some closer to 60 north and west. more showers saturday. over the weekend it looks like fewer showers. in fact tomorrow looks like the heavier rains will be north of d.c. so for homecoming games at several universities, including maryland, we have showers around. baltimore is home sunday, could see a couple of showers then but drier next week. monika, good morning. >>> not so good all over washington this morning. right now there's a water main break. i just found out about in old town closing washington street between duke street and wolf street. and that ma

was a standard procedure among the colonial settlers who lived in what is now maine and november scotia, to kill and scalp as many indian members of the tribe. the same policy was also implemented in 1755 by settlers who lived in what is now known as the state of massachusetts, and their objective was to kill and scalp members of the penobscot indian nation. mr. speaker, the colonial policy was, you get paid. you get paid for killing and scalping native american indians. and if you kill an indian boy, you get paid 50 pounds. if you get a scalp, that's an additional 40 pounds. and not only is it to the men, but the women and children are also scalped and killed, and you get paid for it. mr. speaker, i submit that these scalps were called redskins. native americans are human beings, mr. speaker, they are not animals. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. for what purpose does the gentleman from california rise? >> ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr