テイト・エリントンさんのインスタグラム写真 - (テイト・エリントンInstagram)「I never knew this, but now that I do Lady Liberty shines all the more bright. “The new Statue of Liberty Museum in New York Harbor revives an aspect of the statue’s long-forgotten history: Lady Liberty was originally designed to celebrate the end of slavery, not the arrival of immigrants. Ellis Island, the inspection station through which million of immigrants passed, didn’t open until six years after the statue was unveiled in 1886. The plaque with the famous Emma Lazarus poem wasn’t added until 1903. “One of the first meanings [of the statue] had to do with abolition, but it’s a meaning that didn’t stick,” Edward Berenson, a history professor at New York University said. The monument, which draws 4.5 million visitors a year, was first imagined by a man named Édouard de Laboulaye. In France, he was the president of a committee that raised and disbursed funds to newly freed slaves. In June 1865, Laboulaye organized a meeting of French abolitionists. “They talked about the idea of creating some kind of commemorative gift that would recognize the importance of the liberation of the slaves [in America],” Berenson said. An early model, circa 1870, shows Lady Liberty with her right arm in the position we are familiar with, raised and illuminating the world with a torch. But in her left hand she holds broken shackles, an homage to the end of slavery. In the final model, the broken chains are still there though, beneath her feet. Liberty Enlightening the World” was “unveiled” on Oct. 28, 1886 — but by then, “the original meaning of the abolition of slavery had pretty much gotten lost.” (Gillian Brockell, Washington Post) #StatueOfLiberty #EllisIsland #Abolition #Abolitionist #Immigrants #Immigration #Enslaved #Emancipation #Slavery #LadyLiberty」5月24日 2時57分