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Season 1: Episode 6
Season 1: Episode 6
Last Tuesday, Ken Cuccinelli, the acting director of the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, made waves when he said in an interview with NPR that the Statue of Liberty stood for the poor, huddled masses who could stand on their own two feet.
The history of the Statue of Liberty, the poem that accompanies it, and its varied use as a symbol of American liberty throughout its existence.
This week, on Context, Please.
A Celebration of the End of Slavery
A Celebration of the End of Slavery
The Statue of Liberty's origins were as a gift from French scholar, Édouard de Laboulaye. Originally concieved of in 1865 as a gift to celebrate America's erradicaiton of slavery, its initial design mirrored that.
This message can be seen in the statue's original designs, which featured broken chains in the left of hand of Lady Liberty. A model of that design, pictured here, is currently housed in the Museum of the City of New York.
An American Symbol
An American Symbol
From its very beginning, the Statue has been used as a symbol for what America is, what it ought to be, and how it ought to feel. It is used as an anthropomorphized expression of a shared American consciousness.
Footnotes
Footnotes
- https://www.npr.org/2019/08/13/750726795/immigration-chief-give-me-your-tired-your-poor-who-can-stand-on-their-own-2-feet
- https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46550/the-new-colossus
- https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/14/opinion/statue-of-liberty-trump-immigration.html
- https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/14/opinion/ken-cuccinelli-emma-lazarus.html?module=inline
- https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1886/10/29/103989757.html?pageNumber=&pageNumber=2
- https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/14/us/cuccinelli-statue-liberty-poem.html
- https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/01/the-story-behind-the-poem-on-the-statue-of-liberty/550553/
- https://www.nps.gov/stli/learn/historyculture/emma-lazarus.htm
- https://www.libertyellisfoundation.org/statue-history
- https://www.nps.gov/stli/learn/historyculture/the-french-connection.htm
- https://www.nps.gov/stli/learn/historyculture/liberty-island-a-chronology.htm
- https://www.nps.gov/stli/learn/historyculture/abolition.htm
- https://www.nps.gov/stli/learn/historyculture/war-and-liberty.htm
- https://www.nps.gov/stli/learn/historyculture/the-immigrants-statue.htm
- https://www.nps.gov/stli/learn/historyculture/abolition.htm
- https://www.nps.gov/stli/learn/historyculture/edouard-de-laboulaye.htm
- https://archive.org/details/catalogueofpedes00laza/page/n27
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2019/05/23/statue-liberty-was-created-celebrate-freed-slaves-not-immigrants/
- https://collections.mcny.org/CS.aspx?VP3=SearchResult&VBID=24UAYWDH9XWB4&SMLS=1&RW=1440&RH=837
- https://digital.library.cornell.edu/catalog/ss:19343182
- https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.6761.html#biography
- https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/statue-liberty-was-originally-muslim-woman-180957377/
- https://oi.uchicago.edu/sites/oi.uchicago.edu/files/uploads/shared/docs/danh_vo_labels.pdf
- http://dbs.ohiohistory.org/africanam/html/page8b00.html?ID=15137
- https://nyheritage.org/exhibits/recognizing-womens-right-vote/public-demonstrations
- https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030272/1885-06-30/ed-1/seq-2/
- https://www.npr.org/2019/08/13/750897658/the-history-of-public-charge-requirements-in-u-s-immigration-law
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