” But the Statue of Liberty was not intended entirely as a monument to the end of slavery”
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That implies that it was mostly to commemorate the end of slavery. The other purpose was to commemorate the centennial of America’s independence.
So my original statement was for the most part correct. Don’t you regret saying that I didn’t have a clue?
The sculptor was a marketer. There is no doubt it was conceived as a Veiled Muslim peasant. The myth..the history.. ...the cache was changed over and over depending on the audience..to get the funding and to get it erected.
Need bonds..lets talk immigration
Need more money..lets talk about moving it to Philly to get NY riled up.
Need money..let’s make up a story in a fund raising pamphlet about the creation of the statue..etc etc etc..
Need a pedestal because it is sitting in crates for over a year ..let’s engage the middle class and the poor ..some who donated very little in order to get the pedestal.
Think they were thinking about slaves when it was erected after donating money for the pedestal ..in the era of Jim Crow???
The Statue of Liberty is a myth based entity who has come to symbolize certain things in this era..but I doubt those values were on the mind of the founding fathers.
The statue of liberty had NOTHING to do with the Civil War or Slavery. It was for the Centennial of the Declaration of Independence PERIOD!!! If it had anything to do with the Slavery issue, why doesn’t the tablet have the date 1865 engraved on Liberty’s tablet? Or the date of the Emancipation Proclamation, or ANY OTHER DATE to do with Slavery?
The ONLY date on the statue is JULY 4, 1776!
UNFORTUNATELY, rewriting history is the work of certain people who think the United States began in 1865!