"White Freedom and the Lady of Liberty" refers to historian Tyler Stovall's work exploring how liberty in Western thought, symbolized by the Statue of Liberty, has historically been racialized and linked to whiteness, challenging the idea of freedom as universal, and discussing persistent rumors that the statue was originally meant to be Black to commemorate abolition.
Stovall argues freedom wasn't a paradox with racism but intrinsic to it, with the statue initially representing emancipation from slavery and later becoming a symbol for European immigrants, promoting "white freedom".

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