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"Unite or Die" cartoon, published in Pennsylvania Journal and Weekly Advertiser, November 16, 1774
Woodcut
Collection of Roy T. Lefkoe, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
In May 1754, just before the Albany Conference, Franklin published this cut rattlesnake cartoon. It illustrated an editorial urging the colonies to join together against the French. This motif remained popular, reappearing in the period leading up to the Revolutionary War as a symbol of the strength of colonial unity against Great Britain. |