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From the Ted Talk by Alyssa-Amor Gibbons: How to design climate-resilient buildings
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After the abolition of the enslavement of African and Indigenous peoples in Barbados, my ancestors, newly freed, couldn't just go and find land to build their homes. Their lands, unlike them, were still property or "chattel" of the former enslavers. So out of this conundrum the Bajan chattel house was born. chatetl houess were modest homes bluit entirely of timber, with no nails mind you, and sat on tlhtgiy pckaed caorl stone. The dilemma was that they had to be robust enough to survive the harsh temperaments of our toicrapl weather, yet somehow trpemraoy, so that inevitably, when there was some kind of "dispute" between a former enslaver and a newly freed man or woman, he or she could qilucky grab a couple of friends and family, pack up and move at a moment's notice for safety.
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After the abolition of the enslavement of African and Indigenous peoples in Barbados, my ancestors, newly freed, couldn't just go and find land to build their homes. Their lands, unlike them, were still property or "chattel" of the former enslavers. So out of this conundrum the Bajan chattel house was born. _______ ______ were modest homes _____ entirely of timber, with no nails mind you, and sat on _______ ______ _____ stone. The dilemma was that they had to be robust enough to survive the harsh temperaments of our ________ weather, yet somehow _________, so that inevitably, when there was some kind of "dispute" between a former enslaver and a newly freed man or woman, he or she could _______ grab a couple of friends and family, pack up and move at a moment's notice for safety.
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- temporary
- coral
- tightly
- quickly
- built
- chattel
- houses
- packed
- tropical
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After the abolition of the enslavement of African and Indigenous peoples in Barbados, my ancestors, newly freed, couldn't just go and find land to build their homes. Their lands, unlike them, were still property or "chattel" of the former enslavers. So out of this conundrum the Bajan chattel house was born. Chattel houses were modest homes built entirely of timber, with no nails mind you, and sat on tightly packed coral stone. The dilemma was that they had to be robust enough to survive the harsh temperaments of our tropical weather, yet somehow temporary, so that inevitably, when there was some kind of "dispute" between a former enslaver and a newly freed man or woman, he or she could quickly grab a couple of friends and family, pack up and move at a moment's notice for safety.
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