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.
So you don’t regret saying I needed a clue. Sad, as Trump would say.