A ton of ppl meant "land of the free" as in "land of the race that was too awesome to get enslaved"https://twitter.com/rabidbadger/status/770335240971808768 …
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Replying to @arthur_affect
The original designer of the Statue of Freedom on the Capitol wanted her to have a Phrygian cap, in Roman times a symbol of a freed slave
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Replying to @arthur_affect
to troll the slavers who aped Liberty-talk, or because he himself was blind to irony?
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Replying to @lawnerdbarak
the sculptor married Julia Ward Howe's sister so presumably he wasn't pro slavefy
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Replying to @arthur_affect
wasn't saying *that*. But oh man that would be an amazing troll job. (In the best sense of the word)
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Replying to @lawnerdbarak
FWIW Northerners were rarely actual abolitionists but they generally disliked slavery
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the country was split between thinking the end of slavery was the natural outcome of the Revolution and the opposite of that
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