Written by an American who had lived for years in Armenia, this 1895 book reports the massacre at Sassoun in 1894 and sets it against the chronic misrule of eastern Turkey: Kurdish raids, crushing taxes, Ottoman promises of reform left unkept and the rivalries of the European powers over the Eastern Question. Josiah Strong supplies the introduction.
An early alarm about the persecution of Armenians, valuable for historians of the massacres of the 1890s. Download the free EPUB.