In northern Alabama around 1874, a cotton mill from New England has brought into being Cottontown, a mill village where children work from morning till night. Hillard Watts, a former plantation overseer turned preacher, watches over these families. His small congregation calls him “the Bishop”.
Meanwhile, Richard Travis, the mill's treasurer, is forever looking for new workers. Mixing humour, faith and melodrama, the book, published in 1906, pleads against child labour, sometimes with the dated outlook of its time.
With the translation always in front of you, this novel is easy to read in the language you are learning.
