NYTimes.com: What the History of Memorial Day Teaches About Honoring the...

 Piggybacking on this story is also the unknown or "forgotten" story that the Statue of Liberty sitting in NY Harbor is NOT the original one that was created by French Sculptor Bartholdi to commemorate our Ancestors who fought in the Civil War in the Union Army to free themselves from enslavement.  Of course, the original statue, below, never saw the light of day due to the same forces that have co-opted the original Memorial Day begun by our Ancestors after they had won their freedom the old fashioned way--fighting for it.  The image below of the original Lady Liberty shows her holding the broken chains of enslavement in her left hand, with the remaining broken chains at her feet. The broken chains were a metaphor the sculptor used to symbolize  the breaking of the literal chains of enslavement that our Ancestors were fettered with on their hands, necks and feet.  This image, and its history is more fully described in my essay, "Juneteenth Is Mis-Guided!"

 

Kwasi

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ORIGINAL MODEL OF STATUE OF LIBERTY BY FRENCH SCULPTOR FREDERIC BARTHOLDI IN 1884, SHOWING THE BROKEN CHAINS OF OUR ANCESTORS ENSLAVEMENT IN AMERICA

 

 

 

 

 

 

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