The territory of Florida during the mid-1700s was a frontier for Europeans who made their way across the Atlantic Ocean in order to expand their empires and ways of life. However, they did so with little regard for the natives who already occupied the territory. This book is primarily concerned with Native Americans and African slaves...a story about the survival of a young slave who finds himself alone on the shores of the Atlantic Ocean after surviving a shipwreck during the height of a hurricane. He is taken in by the Ais (Ays), one of the remaining original tribes of Florida that will disappear a generation later as they assimilate with remnants of other surviving tribes and runaway slaves thus creating the Seminole Tribe. The territory of Florida during the mid-1700s was a frontier for the English and Spanish who immigrated from across the Atlantic Ocean in order to establish their form of life, both religious and governmental, with little regard for the natives who already occupied the land. This is not simply another book about shipwrecks and sunken treasure. It is a book primarily concerned with Native Americans and African Slaves...a story-book about the survival of a young slave who finds himself on the shores of the Florida Coastline after surviving a shipwreck during the height of a hurricane. He is taken-in by the Native Ais Tribe, one of the last remaining original tribes of Florida of whom a generation later will disappear. The remaining tribes of the southeastern continent will fill this vacuum left by the original tribes as they are pushed further and further west and south into the territory of the Florida Peninsula. There, they will assimilate with run-away slaves and thus create the Seminole Tribe. Sam was raised in Western North Carolina, residing in Flat Rock and Asheville before attending Montreat-Anderson College, Black Mountain, N.C. Sam began his forty-year musical career in the mid-1970s touring and performing his original material. He established Town Mountain Music publishing company in the mid-1980s. Sam began publishing his poetry and co-established Driving Records in the mid-1990s. In 2012 he and his wife, Seajay, established Sea Dunes Books, publishing their own books, as well as a number of other Southern authors. Sam and Seajay reside on a barrier-island on the coast of Florida where they write, edit, design and publish their books.