A liberty cap is a brimless felt cap, such as the Phrygian cap or pileus, emblematic of manumission in the Ancient World and Liberty in modern revolutionary periods. A Phrygian cap The Phrygian cap or Bonnet Phrygien is a soft, red, conical cap with the top pulled forward, worn in antiquity by the inhabitants of Phrygia, a region of central Anatolia. ... Pileus may mean: In science: Pileus (mycology), the cap of a mushroom. ... Manumission is the act of freeing a slave, done at the will of the owner. ... For other uses, see Liberty (disambiguation). ...
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The Phrygian cap or Libertycap is a soft conical cap with the top pulled forward, worn by the inhabitants of Phrygia, a region of central Anatolia in antiquity.
The same soft cap is seen worn by an attendant in the murals of a late 4th century Thracian tomb at Kazanlak, Bulgaria (illustrated).
The cap has appeared on the coat of arms of Argentina, Colombia, and the United States of Central America, and an effigy of "Liberty" was shown holding the Liberty Pole and Phrygian cap on some early United States of America coinage (pictured right).
The LibertyCap is a shallow, limp cap, somewhat resembling a woolen ski cap.
In the eighteenth century the cap was worn by radicals who were bent upon the destruction of the monarchies in favor of republican or democratic regimes, in accordance with the dictates of free-thinking and atheistic "philosophers" of the same century.
The LibertyCap was confirmed as the symbol of radicalism in the French Revolution, when it became the fashionable attire of anyone who was in favor of the Revolution, and finally of the bloodthirsty and cruel Jacobins, the leaders of the Reign of Terror.
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