Join, or Die
American political cartoon used during American Revolution
Join, or Die
Join, or Die. (stylized JOIN, or DIE.) is a political cartoon showing the disunity in the American colonies, originally in the context of the French and Indian War in 1754. Attributed to Benjamin Franklin, the original publication by The Pennsylvania Gazette on May 9, 1754, is the earliest known pictorial representation of colonial union produced by an American colonist in Colonial America. It was based on a superstition that if a snake were cut in pieces and the pieces were put together before sunset, the snake would be resurrected. The cartoon is a woodcut showing a snake cut into eighths, with each segment labeled with the initials of one of the Thirteen British colonies. New England is represented as one segment and not the four colonies it consisted of at the time (Connecticut, Province of Massachusetts Bay, Province of New Hampshire, and Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations). Delaware Colony, as part of Province of Pennsylvania at the time, was not listed separately...
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