Title: Theory of war /
Authors: Brady, Joan.
Publisher: A.A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House,
Year: 1993
Subjects: Slavery Middle West Fiction.; United States History Fiction.; Middle West Fiction.
Abstract: The narrator of this searing novel is the granddaughter of a slave. Her grandfather, Jonathan Carrick, was a white man. He was sold just after the Civil War to a struggling Kansas tobacco farmer - a common enough practice in those days when black slaves were no longer legal and the children of destitute soldiers were being marketed. You could pick up a white kid cheap, and Jonathan, only four years old, went for fifteen dollars.^