Grain Coast

American  

[greyn] / greɪn /

noun

1. a historic region on the Gulf of Guinea, in W Africa, in present-day Liberia.

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Example Sentences

Other forts and markets soon sprouted along the West African coast, and Europeans began calling its different stretches by their major exports: the Grain Coast, the Ivory Coast, the Gold Coast, the Slave Coast.

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

In the 14th century it was imported into Europe from the Grain Coast, under the name of pepper, by merchants of Rouen and Lippe.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" by Various

Touching at the Grain Coast, the Ivory Coast, and the Gold Coast, America will carry the African missionaries, Bibles, papers, improved machinery, instead of rum and chains.

From History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens by Williams, George Washington

The Grain Coast is named from the grains of the Malaghetta pepper plant.

From The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa by Badlam, Anna B.

Among the Grain Coast tribes however, the girls go into a magic wood until they are married. 

From Travels in West Africa by Kingsley, Mary H.