Question

C. L. R. James’s story “Triumph” examines one of the communal yards within these structures that housed poor laborers in Port of Spain. For 10 points each:
[10m] What cramped buildings at St. Ann’s housed Bridgetown’s WIR (“W-I-R”)? Africans were imprisoned in a type of these structures that titles Zora Neale Hurston’s embellished account of Cudjoe Lewis, who survived America’s last slave ship.
ANSWER: barracks [or barraques or barracas; accept barracoons, barracón, barracones, or barracãos; accept barrack-yard, barracks-yard, yard-barracks, barrack ranges, or front barracks; accept West India Barracks or Stone Barracks; prompt on Saint Ann’s Garrison; prompt on dormitory, dormitories, huts, or cabins by asking “what were they called in this context?”; reject “ships” or “boats”] (The WIR were the West India Regiments. Lewis was transported on the Clotilda.)
[10h] Haitian braceros lived in these wooden barracks on Dominican sugar estates. They share their name with Puerto Rican meeting spaces, Taíno ball courts, and Cuban millyards similar to engenhos (“en-ZHAIN-yoos”).
ANSWER: bateys (“bah-TAYS”) [or bateyes; accept batu]
[10e] Part of this Caribbean country’s national museum is housed in 18th-century barracks in St. George’s, which Eric Gairy renovated before his overthrow by Maurice Bishop.
ANSWER: Grenada [or Gwenad; accept Grenada National Museum]
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Berkeley ABrown1001020
Chicago ANorth Carolina A10101030
North Carolina BChicago C010010
Claremont CollegesRutgers001010
Columbia AWUSTL A1001020
MichiganGeorgia Tech1001020
StanfordIndiana1001020
IllinoisJohns Hopkins1001020
Cornell BKentucky001010
NYUMaryland001010
McGillHarvard001010
Cornell AMinnesota A001010
Truman StateMinnesota B1001020
PurdueChicago B100010
South CarolinaChicago D001010
NorthwesternToronto A001010
Toronto BArizona State0000
Berkeley BVanderbilt1001020
VirginiaPenn001010
FloridaWUSTL B0000
TexasWaterloo1001020
Yale AIowa State1001020
DukeYale B1001020
Columbia BOttawa001010