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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.

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