Jul 3, 2020
3 min read
The (Black) History of Lady Liberty
Yes, the iconic Statue of Liberty was built to recognize the end of slavery
In early 1998, the National Park Service began to seriously entertain the idea of researching the true history of the Statue of Liberty. This came after numerous inquiries about the raison d’être of the statue and the cultural appropriation of the statue’s meaning by white…
