Floodtide is a 1950 historical novel by the American writer Frank Yerby.

[1] It was ranked seventh on the Publishers Weekly list of bestselling novels that year.

[2] Like many of his works of the era it is set in the South during the nineteenth century.

Ross Pary, the son of a saloon from the poor district of Natchez Under-the-Hill, schemes and fights his way up to join the slaveowner plantation elite of Mississippi.

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