Where can one see the largest shackles in the world?

The Statue of Liberty holds the distinction of having the world's largest shackles.  Originally, the statue was designed to hold a broken chain and shackle in her left hand, symbolizing freedom from oppression. However, the final design placed the broken chain and shackle at her feet. 
This powerful symbol represents the abolition of slavery on the American continent and the broader concept of liberty.

Originally, the designer, Bartholdi wanted to include the statue holding broken chains, to symbolize the end of slavery. However, this was later changed to the statue standing above broken chains.
Although it is not that prominent and not commonly known, there is broken leg shackles at the base of the statue.


Chains and shackles generally symbolize oppression while their broken counterparts, of course, signify freedom.


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I’ve actually been in the Statue of Liberty which was originally made to be placed at the Suez Canal in Egypt. I don’t know if the design was changed but I’m positive it wasn’t original made for America. The tour to go inside and up to the torch has to go through homeland security since 911. If you want to take the tour you’ve got to do the paperwork for approval months in advance. Ron J

I was last inside the statue in the late 1970's. A very long time ago. At that time, you could get all the way up to look out of the windows inside the crown. The arm and the torch were deemed too weak to handle the traffic of all the people who visited daily and you needed special permission to access that section. I never made it that far.

A funny side note. I was really young at the time, probably 6+/- years old. Leading up to our trip, my father mentioned that we were going to climb the statue. Being so young, I didn't realize that there would be stairs inside of a statue and I was terrified that he meant that we were going to climb the outside of it somehow. I'd seen the statue many times before our trip from a distance. We lived in Brooklyn at the time and you could see it clearly from the Gowanus / BQE, so I had a good idea of how big it was. 

 You can imagine my relief when we got there and I discovered the winding staircase inside. Afterward, I told him what I had thought, and I'd never seen him laugh so hard in my life. He's been gone for a few years now and it's always been one of my favorite memories of him. I was a bit embarrassed to tell him, but I've always been able to laugh at myself if the situation fit, and that one definitely fit. My family teased me about it for years.