The Real Reason they Built the Statue of Liberty | How it Became Manhattan

[@DanielsimsSteiner]

Making this was so fun. I love NY and I love history and I’m stoked for ppl to learn about it. 🎉

[@domonickchatt9297]

All lies that not even the original 😂😂😂

[@WondersofGuyana]

I'm doing research on how to make a good video for landmarks and I think this is the best video I've watched on the statue of liberty Thank you

[@bhongtv9570]

​@@WondersofGuyana no it's not I know the real stories behind. Why this Lady Statue of Liberty erected it's because the Gold Backup

[@Hillary429]

I did not know she was first designed to be a symbol of breaking free from slavery, so glad I watched this video

[@alecblunden8615]

If this is true, the monument was erected at least a century too early.

[@ericgray56]

​@alecblunden8615 Not true, it actually aligns perfectly. The statue construction started in 1874 then shipped to the US and fully erected there by 1886. History supports this read below: On June 19, 1865, nearly two years after President Abraham Lincoln emancipated enslaved Africans in America, Union troops arrived in Galveston Bay, Texas with news of freedom. More than 250,000 African Americans embraced freedom by executive decree in what became known as Juneteenth or Freedom Day. He is telling you right. Trust, it's just another propaganda that our great nation has again whitewashed away from being included in "AMERICAN HISTORY" but, thank God for the internet. So, we can do our own digging and discover what they don't want us to know.

[@literalleigh]

Thank you so much. I love New York City. I’ve been twice with purpose in my lifetime.

[@ewansihasimmons8070]

Excellent video! Thanks for adding additional context to the Statue of Liberty and what it symbolizes.

[@BrightTripTravel]

Very welcome!

[@ncubesays]

I was not expecting this history. So glad I clicked to watch this!!

[@a_l_p_e_r_34_]

The statue was built upon the order of the Egyptian Khedive Said Pasha, to be erected where the Suez Canal opens to the Mediterranean, and some of the expenses were paid by the Ottoman Sultan Abdülaziz. The ordered statue was completed, but the erection of such a large statue in Egypt was abandoned due to concerns that the erection of such a large statue would cause discomfort among the Muslim people, and after waiting in a warehouse in France for years, the statue was given as a gift to the USA in 1884.

[@DanielmirandaMiranda-mc7wm]

Thank you very much 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[@jamesstephens9702]

I can still recall visiting the statue back in the 1981 and walking single file up the stair case to look out of the crown. I revisted post 911 the base is the only part accessible. A plexiglass ceiling was installed so you can look up into the statue.

[@ughgoawayplease]

you are an excellent story teller

[@Lizwindsor]

Great details. Well done.

[@kate2create738]

May I share this video with different react channels of foreigners that are interested in American culture? I think this video is very formative on the origins of the iconic Statue of Liberty, it would be nice to give them a basis of the background history while highlighting the first intentions was to commemorate the US to becoming an emancipated young country while navigating itself in the first 100 years of existence. It probably could help you get more views for your video and channel.

[@benchippy8039]

It’s a nice story but it’s not true, read a little deeper than Wikipedia and you’ll see there’s no mention of emancipation at the time. The status of liberty was conceived long before the civil war. I wish people were that advanced back then as we might be a little further along now tho!

[@bhongtv9570]

​​​@@benchippy8039the Stories behind is because of Gold backup why they erected it. ❤thank me later.. It's symbolizes of The Queen and who owns a Gold Back up of the Entire Country.. ❤😊

[@viviangunsettcecco]

Great info! Wanna take a plane and explore NY!

[@BrightTripTravel]

You should!

[@jbmedina9445]

Bartholdi was dreamy! 🤤

[@Allons-y.Charlie]

They raised money in the US for the base for the placement of the statue. The statue was financed by the people of France. Not sure who Columbia is since the statue is a figure of Libertas, the Roman goddess of liberty.

[@eualena1]

This statue represents lucifer. Hence the chains, torch and crown. There's a sculpture of lucifer with exact the same elements.

[@jonmustang]

Apollo/Apollyon is also related to the crown. The occult history of the USA is quite the rabbit hole

[@Steve-cm2ys]

You poor victims. LOL

[@chrissysnowmusic799]

Indeed!

[@Sava.S]

​@@Steve-cm2ys I can assure you, US being the land of the free does not mean what people think. No country in the world has taken over in 200 years in such way, there is a master plan behind it.

[@Sava.S]

​@@Steve-cm2ysFree masons built it, they do not believe in Jesus as divine but they believe in a master architect who turns out is guess who...

[@patrickbureau1402]

Btw - COPPER doesnt RUST - same reason old roofs were protected !🇨🇦

[@AnneSiose]

Wanna explore NY with you! 🥹🙏

[@hocuspocus7603]

Why does the search engine thumbnail for this vid have the summary "This statue represents lucifer. Hence the chains, torch and crown. There's a sculpture of lucifer with exact the same elements."? Clickbait? 🤨

[@patrickbateman9887]

*LEFT hand @5:02

[@jzhen001]

what's the song that starts at 9:45？

[@N_g_er]

Fabian I'm gay too

[@martijnkeisers5900]

So THE symbol of the USA is 100 percent French! 😂

[@IvanMenezes-b3d]

There one mini statue of Liberty / slavery in Paris.

[@ericktucker1983]

The seven rays also represent the seven spirits of God also Satan had seven demons in Mary Magdalene that came out both mirror each other in opposite perspectives

[@DocSteiner]

Well done @danielsimssteiner!!

[@tesudarshan-indianforeigns936]

Well hello there lets give applause to India🇮🇳 which makes history by successful soft landing of satellite into the south Pole of moon🌙 and its a huge project which needs high and common sense level thinking and to all my European and American friends lets give a big around of applause to ISRO🤝🤝🤝🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳

[@pangolin3688]

"The president of the US came along with just about everybody else." Everybody else? According to the Smithsonian Museum, only two women were invited to the ceremony. The artists' depiction of the event includes no women.

[@EarthAngelMozy369]

🪽🖤🪽🖤🪽🖤🪽🖤

[@yarik_smallkin]

Frenchmen's huh... Thank you for this video.

[@VelhaGuardaTricolor]

9:40 it could have been written by Donald Trump himself.

[@jmontoyar1985]

Columbia is the U.S. personification of Libertas so without knowing, you already knew who she was. However, something tells me you already knew that, but were only trying to be coy 🤔.

[@benchippy8039]

The whole premise of the video is wrong but the native Americans were/have been treated appallingly. I might of been inclined to behave quite badly myself in their situation!

[@ThunderFaith]

There is so much inaccurate information in this video 😢

[@hebagamal5036]

Honey, you missed the most important piece of info, it was originally designed for Egypt! To be placed at the entrance of the Suez Canal, but Egypt refused to pay for it!!! Get your facts straight

[@MAOOMI]

My understanding is that it was a concept for Egypt, rather than built and ready as it is now to represent Egypt and the plan was rejected. The work to create a statue was then taken elsewhere and repurposed for a democratic cause celebrating the abolition of slavery and democratic ideals…

[@cici35official19]

He literally said that it was a proposal to Egypt. Proposal, meaning not even built.

[@BOBK-jf4qx]

Bertholdi not Bertolli (that's a pasta brand) - a Freemason. There are four or five oceans (I was taught 4 only) and around 50 seas, Europeans don't recognize South America as a separate continent - so, WTF? Maybe seven chakras...or the perfect number (contains 3 = triangle, and 4 = square) as per Freemasons. Seven also means completion...as in completing the settler-colonial project? No mention of her second (Greek) toe? What about the hendecagram pedestal base? Symbol of sin or Unity of earth and sky? ... there's so much more.

[@benchippy8039]

I can’t find any contemporary evidence that Laboulaye ever mentioned anything about celebrating the emancipation of slaves with the Statue of Liberty, it was to cement American and French relations and to inspire the French people to aspire for democracy and liberty. Very few people cared about the freedom of slaves back then including Lincoln. There seems to be some big effort to re write history like the civil war was fought over anything other than governmental power and that western ‘democracies’ gave a s**t about black people. Emancipation was convenient as it supplied the union with more cannon fodder. Obviously the ends justified the means as slavery was a stain on the history of humanity but no need to misrepresent the truth

[@MAOOMI]

There’s a Hidden Brain podcast episode which discusses just this. Might be worth a listen. There’s also this: 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 - www.nps.gov/stli/learn/historyculture/abolition.htm

[@benchippy8039]

@ I’ll have to come back to you on that! Don’t have time right now to read it. I’d certainly like to believe that 600k men died for a reason other than federal power.