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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A historical region of western Africa along the coast of the Atlantic Ocean, roughly corresponding to present-day Liberia. It was named for its once-thriving trade in grains of paradise.
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Examples
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Unfortunately, the Kruman of the Grain Coast and the Cabinda of the
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The Kruboys, as the natives of the Grain Coast are called, irrespective of the age of the individual, by the white men — the Menekussi as the Effiks call them — are the most important people of West Africa; for without their help the working of the Coast would cost more lives than it already does, and would be in fact practically impossible.
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Among the Grain Coast tribes however, the girls go into a magic wood until they are married.
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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.
Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver Theodore Canot
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On the Grain Coast the high priest or fetish king, who bears the title of Bodio, is responsible for the health of the community, the fertility of the earth, and the abundance of fish in the sea and rivers; and if the country suffers in any of these respects the Bodio is deposed from his office.
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On the Grain Coast the high priest or fetish king, who bears the title of Bodio, is responsible for the health of the community, the fertility of the earth, and the abundance of fish in the sea and rivers; and if the country suffers in any of these respects the Bodio is deposed from his office.
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If any one were to tell me that the millions of Afro-Americans, stronger every day as they are, cannot, if they have the impulse and the zeal, make for themselves a chapter in the history of Africa's development that shall be an enduring monument to their love of God and man, I should simply point to that little colony of freed slaves on the Grain Coast, struggling as they have been and still are.
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The Kruboys, as the natives of the Grain Coast are called, irrespective of the age of the individual, by the white men -- the
Travels in West Africa Mary H. Kingsley 1881
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Unfortunately, the Kruman of the Grain Coast and the
Travels in West Africa Mary H. Kingsley 1881
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But it's no use talking, it's the same all along, Sierra Leone, Grain Coast, Ivory
Travels in West Africa Mary H. Kingsley 1881
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