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

The Malaghetta, or Grain Coast, is often called the Windy, or Windward Coast, on account of the many brief but furious tornadoes which it experiences throughout the year.

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

Its seeds were called “Grains of Paradise,” or maniguetta, and the coast alluded to by Columbus, between Liberia and Cape Palmas, was hence called the Grain Coast.

From The Northmen, Columbus and Cabot, 985-1503 by Olson, Julius E.

The language of the Gold and Ivory Coasts we find much fuller than those on the Grain Coast.

From History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 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.