How a Movable House Shaped Barbadian Identity

A House as Metaphor for Barbados. Barbados itself is a chattel home of sorts-- a small island that declined to remain where the world attempted to place it. It got its identity and moved it through centuries of upheaval:
• Amerindian origins
• English colonial rule
• African survival and reinvention
• The plantation period
• Emancipation.
• Migration.
• Education.
• Independence.
• Republic.
At every turn, the island adjusted without losing itself. That is the effects house spirit.
Movement without uprooting.
Strength without rigidity.
Identity that travels however does not fade.

From Rogues in Paradise.