Discover Barbados' Chattel House History

Rogues, Identity, and the Spirit of Improvisation. The story of the goods house belongs in Rogues in Paradise since rogues-- in your definition-- are individuals who bend the rules, reimagine the possible, and develop brand-new ways to survive and thrive.
The chattel house is a rogue structure.
It defied the plantation system.
It challenged the reasoning of land control.
It embodied the improvisational genius of normal Bajans.
And like the characters in your book-- Ace, Woolly, Yardfowl, Muriel-- the goods house was bold, unconventional, and silently defiant.
As you typically say:.
Barbadians did not inherit flexibility-- they produced it.
The goods house is the architectural proof.

From Rogues in Paradise.