This is Angela Odell, and you are listening to Real Cool History for Kids, a podcast show featuring history told from a distinctly biblical worldview perspective. Welcome to an adventure.

Welcome to episode 141 of Real Cool History for Kids. This episode is for John and Jacob Dorsey, who wanted to hear the story of the Statue of Liberty.

Hey guys, this one's for you.

The Statue of Liberty is also called Lady Liberty, and she has a special place in our nation's history and in every patriotic

American's heart. But the Statue of Liberty was first created in the mind of a Frenchman

named Edward de la Boulet. De Laudelais was born in France in 1811, and he was an important political

thinker of his time, a leading expert in the U.S. Constitution, and a great supporter of President

Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War.

De La Boulet was also an abolitionist.

Remember what that means?

They wanted to get rid of slavery.

They wanted to abolish slavery.

And he hated slavery and oppression and believed in the common law of free people, which states that every person

is created with an inalienable sacred right to freedom. Inalienable means something cannot be

given or taken away, and each person's rights were given by God himself,

so they are inalienable. In 1865, de la Boulet came up with an idea of designing a monument for the

United States to celebrate the truth of these words.

The U.S. had just come out of the Civil War and the Union had been preserved.

And the country was beginning to move further down the path towards the words written in the Declaration of Independence. All men are

created equal. Created, you guys, that is a absolutely, probably one of the most important words

in the Declaration of Independence, created. God is the one who created us equal. The end of slavery

and ideas of freedom and democracy inspired de la Boulet to honor the United States.

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