In 1886,♦️The Statue of Liberty ♦️was a symbol of ⭐️democratic government and Enlightenment ideals as well as a celebration of the ⭐️Union's victory in the American Civil War and the ⭐️abolition of slavery.
Edouard de Laboulaye, the French political thinker, U.S. Constitution expert, and abolitionist, who first proposed the idea of a great monument as a gift from France to the United States was a firm supporter of President Abraham Lincoln and his fight for abolition.
Laboulaye saw abolition not only as a way to eliminate immorality, but also as a way to protest repressive tendencies in France.
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https://www.nps.gov/stli/learn/historyculture/abolition.htm
