Why wasn't this something illustrated in our history books?
2006-09-29 05:11:54 · 33 answers · asked by tough questions 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_American do a find for statue of liberty
2006-09-29 05:25:35 · update #1
France sent her as a black woman, but when she got America was too bias to tell it.
In a book called "The Journey of The Songhai People", according to Dr. Jim Haskins, a member of the National Education Advisory Committee of the Liberty-Ellis Island Committee, professor of English at the University of Florida, and prolific Black author, points out that what stimulated the original idea for that 151 foot statue in the harbor. He says that the idea for the creation of the statue initially was the part that Black soldiers played in the ending of Black African Bondage in the United States. It was created in the mind of the French historian Edouard de Laboulaye, chairman of the French Antislavery Society, who, together with sculptor Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, proposed to the French government that the people of France present to the people of the United States through the American Abolitionist Society, the gift of a Statue of Liberty in recognition of the fact that Black soldiers won the Civil War in the United States. It was widely known then that it was Black soldiers who played the pivotal role in winning the war, and this gift would be a tribute to their prowess. Suzanne Nakasian, director of the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island Foundations' National Ethnic Campaign said that the Black Americans' direct connection to Lady Liberty is unknown to the majority of Americans, BLACK or WHITE.
2006-09-29 05:15:01 · answer #1 · answered by Diamond in the Rough 6 · 5⤊ 7⤋
Black Statue Of Liberty
2016-10-31 10:52:07 · answer #2 · answered by mathison 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Statue Of Liberty Wikipedia
2016-12-11 20:21:55 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe she is, maybe she isn't. I copied a little of the text below from the link below.
Many people believed Charlotte Bartholdi (1801-1891) was the model for the statue. Others thought it was based on her son's early drawings for a never-commissioned statue in Egypt. The sculptor's true inspiration for his masterpiece remains a mystery.
While visiting Egypt, Bartholdi met a fellow Frenchman with ideas as big as his own, who was to become his friend for life. Count Ferdinand-Marie de Lesseps dreamed of piercing the desert with a canal that would run from the Mediterranean to the Red Sea. While others first laughed at de Lesseps, Bartholdi was inspired by the magnitude of the idea. As a sculptor, he envisioned a giant lighthouse standing at the entrance to de Lesseps's canal. It would be patterned after the Roman goddess Libertas, and twice the size of the Sphinx.
In 1867, when de Lesseps's idea, the Suez Canal, was nearing completion, Bartholdi drew up plans for his statue. It was to be in the form of a robed female Egyptian peasant, a falaha, with light beaming out from both a headband and a torch thrust dramatically upward into the skies. Its theme? "Progress" or "Egypt Carrying the Light to Asia." (Years later, Bartholdi denied any association between "Progress" and the final design for the Statue of Liberty.) Bartholdi presented his plans for "Progress" to the Egyptian ruler, Isma'il Pasha, in 1867 and, with revisions, again in 1869. But the project was never commissioned.
2006-09-29 05:21:53 · answer #4 · answered by writ_rrr 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I actually don't know.
The model who posed for the statue of liberty and who the statue got likeness from WAS a french black woman. But we all know that any history pertaining to black people is looked over in our society.
2006-09-29 06:43:01 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are you kidding? The statue of liberty was a gift from France (a White country) to the U.S. (Then a white country) for liberating them from the occupying forces of Germany (a white country) in WWI Europe (a predominately white continent) which was based on the Greek (A white country) mythology figure of liberty. Why in the world would she be black? Not that I care if she was...it wouldn't change what she stands for but, are blacks so desperate to define themselves that this is where we are at now?
2006-09-29 05:23:40 · answer #6 · answered by Sean 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Because she's not. First off, she's a statue, and the ethnicity of the statue is absolute irrelevent. She portrays liberty from oppression. If you were to look for the model for her, you'd find it's most likley to be Isabella Eugenie Boyer. Very white, very French, very sorry to shatter your hard-done-by victimhood, but you'll have to look elsewhere.
2006-09-29 05:16:52 · answer #7 · answered by Dirty_Idea 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
The purpose of the Statue of Liberty is what she represents, not what race she was. Whether your statement is true or not is irrelevant. The Statue of Liberty embodies the freedom and democratic spirit of this country. It ultimately signals to all the world that the US gives those the opportunity and freedom to be self-determined. Does assigning a race to the Statue of Liberty change that message? Does it amply the symbolism? No. Stop being so hung up on race. I am of Indian descent. Does that mean that I want all products coming from India, to the US, brandished with images of India?
2006-09-29 05:12:55 · answer #8 · answered by Lawrence Louis 7 · 7⤊ 3⤋
Do you mean a copper woman since the statue is made of copper? Or do you mean the woman who was the modal for the statue was black?
2006-09-29 05:25:06 · answer #9 · answered by mama T 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
the statue of liberty was designed in france. they never create it after
a black woman or any other race besides caucasian
2006-09-29 05:15:03 · answer #10 · answered by oana 4 · 5⤊ 0⤋