Grain Coast
Americannoun
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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
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.
The Spaniard had been chartered by the Don to bring from the Grain Coast a cargo of rice, which he was to collect under my instructions.
From Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver by Mayer, Brantz
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.
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