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During Barbados' period of slavery, the masters were required to
provide their slaves with a place to live. Often, this constituted nothing more than
a small shack or stone building where entire families would live. Some slave huts,
such as the one pictured above, remain on the island, though they are largely unused and
in disrepair.
At Tyrol Cot, where Sir Grantley Adams (the first premier of
Barbados) lived, the Barbados National Trust replicated a chattel village from the 1920's.
Mixed in with the chattel houses, blacksmith's forge, and rumshop is a slave hut
complete with the utensils made of calabash and rags on the ground that children would
have used for beds.
  
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