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Reviewed: Feb 21, 2010
COTTON PICKIN’ PAYCHECK: A 21st Century Journal of Escape From Slavery by Joan E. Gosier wins the award for outstanding compilation of a life-journaling experience of her escape from corporate slavery to become a successful entrepreneur! This brings you into the life of a young African-American girl who moved from the swift-boiling melting pot of New York to the simmering racist-ridden Virginia. Gosier is witty and charming as she describes how she adapted to the tough realities that awaited her in Middlesex County, Virginia. Her lessons are hard and difficult, yet soft and evolving. Corporate America becomes no place for this author, no more than her ancestors found a permanent place in the cotton fields. Gosier finds freedom as an entrepreneur...or does she?
There are lessons in COTTON PICKIN’ PAYCHECK that are deeply thought-provoking, from standing up to the racist bully in elementary school to discovering the family’s honorable roots. COTTON PICKIN’ PAYCHECK encourages land ownership by blacks as well as entrepreneurship. The journal entries provide snippets of practical life lessons from Gosier that differ slightly from the historical lessons about slavery; it's a modern-day journey away from corporate slavery.
Joan E. Gosier is sensational as she allows the readers to share the good times when stealing the family car fed her addiction to the sorrowful times when she stumbled emotionally after her father’s death. COTTON PICKIN’ PAYCHECK is whimsical and works great for teaching a new ideal about the historic paradigm of slavery! Included in this work is a formula for success and strategy questions to map your own escape. Readers will also find all the encouragement one needs to go back to the corporate cotton field and rescue other slaves.
Reviewed by **Guest Reviewer Swaggie Coleman
of The RAWSISTAZ™ Reviewers
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Freelance writer Swaggie Coleman resides in northern Maryland. In addition, she is a Professional Blogger who maintains a blogazine, Swaggie's Voice, which includes her exclusive "Thumbs-Up" Reading List at: http://swaggiecoleman.blogspot.com and published by www.levineoliverpublisher.com.
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