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Had French sculptor Frédéric Bartholdi kept to his original design, New York’s Statue of Liberty would look very different to the icon we know today.
Bartholdi wanted the statue to hold a torch in one hand to represent enlightenment, with the other clutching broken chains to signify the abolition of slavery. However, the latter was considered controversial, so she instead holds a tablet bearing the date the Declaration of Independence
