Barbados Wooden Chattel Homes
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 moved it through centuries of upheaval: • Amerindian origins • English colonial rule • African survival and reinvention • The plantation era • Emancipation. • Migration. • Education. • Independence. • Republic. At every turn, the island adjusted without losing itself. That is the chattel home spirit. Movement without uprooting. Strength without rigidity. Identity that travels however does not fade. Based on- Rogues in Paradise.