Discover the Tradition Behind Barbados' Chattel Houses
A House as Metaphor for Barbados. Barbados itself is a goods home of sorts-- a little island that declined to stay where the world tried to place it. It picked up its identity and shifted it through centuries of upheaval:
• Amerindian origins
• English colonial guideline
• African survival and reinvention
• The plantation period
• Emancipation.
• Migration.
• Education.
• Independence.
• Republic.
At every turn, the island adapted without losing itself. That is the effects house spirit.
Movement without rooting out.
Strength without rigidness.
Identity that takes a trip but does not fade.
From Rogues in Paradise.
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