There's a wonderful family called stein, there's gert, and there's epp and there's ein: gert's poems are bunk, epp's statues are junk, and no one can understand ein.
The Statue of Liberty was a gift from France in 1886 proposed by Edouard Laboulaye. It was a representation of both the union's victory in the American Revolution, as well as a celebration of the abolition of slavery.