Red Rugs Of Tarsus Helen Davenport Gibbons ARMENIA, Adana 1909 Armenian Genocide

Description: THE RED RUGS OF TARSUS: A WOMAN'S STORY OF THE ARMENIAN MASSACRES by Helen Davenport Gibbons. 1917 The Red Rugs of Tarsus; a Woman's Record of the Armenian Massacre of 1909 by Helen Davenport Gibbons, 1917. First edition. Printed in USA by The Century Co., NY, NY. Printed in 1917. 194 pages. Good copy. Previous owner's stamp on the front free-paper. A good copy of this highly collectible book about the Armenian Massacres. Ex-library copy HELEN DAVENPORT GIBBONS [1882 – 1960] - An American journalist, author. In 1909 the Gibbons family witnessed the Armenian massacres in Tarsus, Turkey. Later (in 1917) Helen Gibbons wrote a book called “The Red Rugs of Tarsus” - a compilation of her letters describing those terrible events. This is an unusual and riveting account by a young American mother who was living in Ottoman Turkey in both Constantinople and Tarsus in Armenia during the opening years of the twentieth century. This was period of turmoil-a time of several cholera outbreaks, the war between Turkey and Italy, the Balkan War and the unrest that eventually led up to the conflagration that was the First World War. Helen Gibbons found herself enmeshed in many of these historic events, but the most significant and terrifying ordeal came with the massacres of the Armenian people by the Turks which turned into nothing less than genocide. In a letter to her mother from Tarsus, dated April 15, 1909, Helen Davenport Gibbons wrote, "They (the Armenians) are terror-stricken, and have reason to be. How would you like to live in a country where you knew your Government not only would not protect you, but would periodically incite your neighbors to rob and kill you with the help of the army?" She made known the facts of the massacres that she herself witnessed in Tarsus and Adana in a book entitled, The Red Rugs of Tarsus, a series of letters in which she chronicled her and her husband’s (Herbert Adams Gibbons) first hand experiences. The book was written in 1917. "Technically speaking, we were not missionaries. We went to Tarsus at the invitation of Dr. Thomas Davidson Christie, the President of the College there, to spend a year rendering what service we could to the regularly appointed missionaries; therefore I am at liberty to express, as I did above, my admiration for the American missionaries from a purely impartial standpoint." Shortly after her marriage to Herbert Adams Gibbons in June 1908 at the age of 25, she traveled with her husband to Turkey where he was working on his doctoral thesis, teaching and also writing as a foreign correspondent for the New York Herald. In 1916 Herbert published The Blackest Page of Modern History: Events in Armenia in 1915 – The Facts and Responsibilities. Following the birth of her first child, Christine Este, she left Tarsus for Egypt.

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