sorry for being vague; i didn't mean to imply that they are identical, just 
the same sort of idea: vernacular, african/slave architecture...

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Subject: Re: In pictures: Chattel houses of Barbados


FYI: In my part of the American South (Alabama), we would NOT recognize
these Barbados structures as related to our "shot gun houses"  because the
entrances are not located in the gable end.