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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