{"product_id":"cocoa-woman-johnny-coomansingh-9781524553418","title":"Cocoa Woman: A Narrative About Cocoa Estate Culture in the British West Indies","description":"\u003cp\u003eCocoa Woman: A Narrative About Cocoa Estate Culture in the British West Indies speaks of the discomfort, the pain, the suffering, and what a young man now speculates to be the abuse he endured while spending weekends and school vacations on his godmother's cocoa plantation. In retrospect, it was nothing short of child slave labor. He feels that he stomached \"slave labor\" just because he received a morsel to eat. The abuse was more than just physical. Unknowingly, he suffered psychological abuse. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAgainst the background of colonial domination and exploitation in Trinidad and Tobago, this book is poignant, direct, and to the point. It unleashes the spirit of the cocoa field and fully exposes the daily menial rounds of production, the never-ending chores, language idioms, village bacchanal, beliefs, cuisine, artifacts, folkways, and foibles that intertwined to constitute cocoa estate culture. All the characters in the story were given different monikers. Most of them are now dead.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Johnny Coomansingh\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1524553417\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781524553418\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Xlibris\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/26\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 116\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.72lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44d","brand":"Johnny Coomansingh","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48439581278463,"sku":"9781524553418","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e41a3f2e-f5bb-4c23-9cf0-7efc8942a2fb.jpg?v=1777178481","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/cocoa-woman-johnny-coomansingh-9781524553418","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}