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À qui s’adresse-t-il ?
Readers who love stories of the American South, preachers and horse trainers, family fortunes won and lost, and old-fashioned romance. It also suits anyone curious about how the first Alabama cotton mills shaped families and children.
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What does it cost to clothe the world? The Bishop of Cottontown opens on a flower, the cotton blossom, cream white at sunrise and purple by dusk. Then it drops you into the Tennessee Valley in the autumn of 1874, where the bolls hang unpicked and a mill waits for hands.
John Trotwood Moore wrote this novel of the Southern cotton mills and dedicated it to his mother. It follows a North Alabama town where a polished mill secretary, a scheming labor agent, a ruined gentleman and an old preacher in a faded blue coat pull against one another. You get horse races, courtships, outlaws and hard bargains, told with humor and anger.
Dans ce résumé
- 1A valley buried in unpicked cottonFree
- 2Richard Travis believes that brains conquer everything
- 3Jud Carpenter turns a gentleman's pride into a signature
- 4Archie B. Butts outwits the man who hunts children
- 5Helen Conway loses a sweetheart and finds a friend
- 6The Bishop of Cottontown preaches in a soldier's coat
- 7Alice Westmore sings while a lost love lingers
- 8The mill grinds children and the Bishop needs money
- 9What the story says about work, faith and the soul of a place
- 10A storyteller's voice of sermon, song and joke
Point clé 1 sur 10
A valley buried in unpicked cotton
The story opens in the Tennessee Valley in the autumn of 1874. Frost has turned the trees on Sand Mountain to crimson and gold. Cotton lies everywhere, in fields, ginhouses and bales beside the cabins. Yet there are too few hands to pick it, and the price is low.
The estate at the center is The Gaffs, five thousand acres handed down from the first Travis. Eight sugar mules walk circles beneath the ginhouse to turn the great wheel. The author lingers on the gin dust, hot, linty and smothering, which he says breeds consumption. A short hymn before the chapter calls the blossom a flower born in a sunbeam and dying in a loom. The plant speaks one word to the human hand, and the word is Pick.
He also looks ahead to the poor white children who will work the looms. The mill will stand at the heart of the book. Cotton warms the world, and someone always pays.
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- LengthAbout 148,200 words
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Questions about L’Évêque de Cottontown
What is The Bishop of Cottontown about?
It follows a North Alabama cotton mill town in the 1870s, where an old preacher named Hillard Watts fights child labor while a wealthy mill secretary, a scheming labor agent and several families struggle with debt, love and pride.
Who is the Bishop in The Bishop of Cottontown?
He is Hillard Watts, a former plantation overseer, wrestler and horse trainer who preaches in a poor mill chapel. Everyone calls him the Bishop, and he wears a faded Union artillery coat with a bullet hole.
What does Cottontown mean in the book?
Cottontown is the mill village that grows around the Acme Cotton Mills. Rows of near-identical yellow cottages house the workers, many of them families from the hills who sign contracts for their children's labor.
Is The Bishop of Cottontown a true story?
It is a novel, published in the early twentieth century, though it draws on real conditions in Southern cotton mills and on the Civil War battles of Shiloh and Franklin. Its people and town are invented.
What is the main message of The Bishop of Cottontown?
The author argues that business should follow the Golden Rule, that children belong in school and play rather than in mills, and that faith should show itself in deeds. Mercy can change even hard men.
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Moore, John Trotwood. The Bishop of Cottontown. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-bishop-of-cottontown.
Moore, J. T. (2026). The bishop of Cottontown. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-bishop-of-cottontown (Original work published 1906)
Moore, John Trotwood. The Bishop of Cottontown. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-bishop-of-cottontown.
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publisher = {Library of Alexandria},
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note = {First published 1906}
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