Henry Carter Hull

Set in Ancient Rome, Blood and Sand reimagines Spartacus as a seventeen-year-old girl. When Attia is sold as a slave to the House of Timeus, no one knows she's actually the warrior princess of Thrace, and the last of her people. She is given to Xanthus, a fellow slave and gladiator champion of Rome, as a gift from his master. Attia and Xanthus begin to build a trust through their shared skill in combat and a driving desire to seek revenge on the Roman...

Kris Bjornson, one of a group of slaves dumped on an uninhabited planet by their Catteni masters, learns to survive with the help of renegade exile Zainal, but when the time comes to join in a revolution against the Catteni, she is torn between her love for Zainal and her desire to return to Earth.

The story of American slavery and Uncle Tom, a black man who never lost his dignity under the most inhumane circumstances.

Describes abolitionist Harriet Tubman's years as a slave, her escape, and her work as a "conductor" on the Underground Railroad, through which she helped more than three hundred other slaves gain their freedom, and also discusses her experiences during the Civil War, her efforts in the women's rights movement, and the creation of the Harriet Tubman Home.