Barbados, a tiny, sun-suffused coral island in the southern Caribbean, is keenly sought out for the abundant sunshine, azure waters, soft-sand beaches, world-class restaurants and rental villas ...

Spotting a "chattel house" on my drive back from the desolate east coast of Barbados was pure chance. In fact, I would not have learned what a chattel house was at all had I not asked my driver ...

Houses therefore had to be 'chattel', which means 'movable possession', and so were built of wood and constructed that they could be dismantled, moved to another spot and reassembled.

The owners, husband-and-wife Amy and Wesley Gittens, converted the so-called chattel house — small, wooden, movable houses that were built by the first freed, Black plantation laborers in the ...

This article was published 12/03/2012 (4833 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current. It was the sinister skull-and-crossbones carving that made the tombstone so conspicuous. Moss ...