Saturday, June 24, 2023

Dining Room

The house was fairly modest for the area at the time, just four bedrooms, kitchen and a huge dining room. When George and Lawrence arrived in Bridgetown, Barbados was a tightly controlled established society with a population ratio of four African slaves to every one white Barbadian. The second floor of the house was added sometime after 1810, long after George's visit, and now houses a more general display of Barbadian history. 
 

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