Bartholdi and Laboulaye considered how best to express the idea of American liberty. In early American history, two female figures were frequently used as cultural symbols of the nation. One of these symbols, the personified Columbia, was seen as an embodiment of the United States in the manner that Britannia was identified with the United Kingdom and Marianne came to represent France. Columbia had supplanted the traditional European personification of the Americas as an "Indian princess", which had come to be regarded as uncivilized and derogatory towards Americans. The other significant female icon in American culture was a representation of Liberty, derived from Libertas, the goddess of freedom widely worshipped in ancient Rome, especially among emancipated slaves. A Liberty American adorned coins of most of the time, and representations of Liberty appeared in popular civic and art, including Thomas Crawford's dome, including the Statue of Liberty Building. Kíni a rí lára àwòrán tí wọ́n ń pè ní Àmì Òmìnira ní orí Ilé Capitol?
Columbia tí wọ́n sọ di èèyàn