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THE FIRST STATUE OF LIBERTY GIVEN TO THE U.S. BY FRANCE WAS A BLACK WOMAN THAT THE U.S. TURNED DOWN SO THE FRENCH MADE ANOTHER WHICH IS THE CURRENT IN N.Y. HARBOR
THIS IS BLACK LADY LIBERTY MADE ALSO BY THE FRENCH ON THE ISLAND OF ST. MARTIN
AFRIKA WOMBMEN OF CREATION YOU MUST CONTINUE TO SHINE THE LIGHT FOR THOSE IN NEED !

Posted By: DAVID JOHNSON
Friday, January 25th 2013 at 7:59PM
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for real?
Friday, January 25th 2013 at 8:02PM
Cynthia Merrill Artis

just thing the US did not want this as a symbol of freedom all because of the blackness so they made her white like everything they turn it from black to white just look at hip hop !
Saturday, January 26th 2013 at 11:32AM
DAVID JOHNSON

ok i wont post here any more since you have resorted to deleting. you are a weak minded man.
Saturday, January 26th 2013 at 12:30PM
Harry Watley

I remember sharing this info with one of my history teachers back in college, that the statue of liberty was really a Black woman and she thought I was just talking crazy.

This is indeed the original face of the Statue of Liberty and if you compare the bronze picture to the picture America uses today, she still has the original chains and shackles on her feet TODAY.

Sunday, January 12th 2014 at 4:34PM
Siebra Muhammad

The Egyptian history of the Statue of Liberty:

The sculptor of the Statue was a French-born Italian named Auguste Bartholdi. At the age of twenty-nine he visited Egypt and the sublime sculptural legacy of the Black Egyptians left an indelible mark on him.

According to Graham Hancock and Robert Bauval, authors of Talisman: Sacred Cities, Secret Faith, it was during his visit to Egypt that Bartholdi met Ferdinand de Lesseps who was then planning to construct the Suez Canal to link the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea. Impressed, Bartholdi thought of making �a gigantic statue of a goddess holding a torch.� This statue was to overlook the canal. However, his plans failed to materialize.

The French engineer Alexandre Gustav Eiffel undertook the construction, although Bartholdi was the designer. The authors cite the Readers Companion to American History, which claims that Bartholdi �� Combined elements of the Egyptian Pyramids he admired with his mother�s face to serve as a model for the statue, which he finished early in 1884.��

In his work Statue of Liberty: First Hundred Years, Bernard Weisberger claims that the giant statue was to be that of the Egyptian goddess Isis. It is a fact that Isis was Black, as was her husband, Osiris. This raises the interesting question:�Was the Statue of Liberty originally conceived to portray a Black woman as some Black historians like Leonard Jeffries have asserted? Indeed, the Cult of Isis was quite strong in France.

It has been said that,�The people of France gave the statue to the people of the United States over 100 years ago in recognition of the friendship established during the American Revolution.�

The Statue was the brainchild of the French historian and politician, Edouard de Laboulaye, who was also the Chairman of the French Anti-Slavery Society. The idea was to sculpt a monument in honor of Black soldiers who were instrumental in the defeat of the Confederacy during the Civil War and thereby ensuring the end of slavery. They mooted the idea to the French Government of presenting a statue to the United States on behalf of the French people through the American Abolitionist Society.

Bartholdi used a Black woman as the model for the original statue, Isis, no doubt. The original model is said to be in France and is black. The American Committee of the Statue of Liberty did not approve of the idea, however, as the issue of slavery was still in favor by the Southern States despite their defeat in the Civil War. When he was first presented with the statue, the U.S. Minister to France claimed that the South might object to the broken shackles.

Bartholdi completed the statue depicting a Black woman with a broken chain of slavery in her left hand and at her feet in 1870. The 151-foot statue was set up in New York Harbor in 1886. A 21-inch model can be found at the Museum of the City of New York at Fifth Avenue and 103rd Street. It was displayed at the Museum on February 9, 2000. The N.Y. Post also displayed the original dark face of the Statue of Liberty on June 17, 1986. Ultimately, the face of the Statue of Liberty was modeled after Bartholdi�s mother, Charlotte Beysser. The 151-foot statue was set up in New York Harbor in 1886.

According to Michael Bradley,�The French Cultural Center (5th Avenue and 82nd Street) has a special �Liberty� edition of the magazine France in which the real story is told and some of the models are illustrated. The original concept was not acceptable, even as a gift from France, and the idea was finally modified into a properly Caucasian personification of �Liberty� before the U.S. would accept delivery.

Sunday, January 12th 2014 at 4:35PM
Siebra Muhammad