Barbados Historical Wooden House

Memory Built in Wood. The chattel house ended up being a sort of portable memory. Every board brought a story: a birth, a quarrel, a guarantee, a cyclone survived, a prayer whispered through floorboards, a pot singing on a coal range. Families broadened and contracted, rooms included and removed, home shifting shape the way identity shifts through generations.
" This is why we never ever lose we humour," the old man said. "A people who can lift they whole home and carry on? You can't break them. You can only teach them different ways to stand."
Your home was not simply shelter.
It was testimony.

A declaration carved in pine and mahogany: We will not be trapped again.

Derived from the True Story Rogues in Paradise.