#emancipation

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Row of small wooden village houses with garden plots of bananas and cocoa along a winding road in rural St Andrew, elevated three-quarter view, bright morning light.

From Sugar to Spice: How Freed Grenadians Won Small Plots After 1838

After emancipation in 1838, sugar declined and Grenadians built a peasant farming economy on cocoa and nutmeg. How small plots, métayage and estates evolved.

14/10/2026 8 min read

Crumbling stone walls of an old estate works overgrown with ferns and breadfruit trees on a hillside in St Patrick, wide-angle view, golden late-afternoon light.

Historic Estates & Land History

How Grenada Was Carved Into Plantation Estates, 1650 to 1838

How Grenada's land was divided into plantation estates under French and British rule, from the 1650s to emancipation, and why that map still shapes land today.

14/10/2026 8 min read