title: Windward Coast
text: # Windward Coast
  
  The Windward Coast was used to describe an area of West Africa located on the coast between Cape Mount and Assini, i.e. the coastlines of the modern states of Sierra Leone, Liberia and Ivory Coast, to the west of what was called the Gold Coast. A related region was called the Pepper Coast or Grain Coast.
  
  ## Culture
  
  The people of the Windward Coast were renowned for the rice and indigo cultivation.
  
  