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Join or Die - A newspaper with a picture of a snake on it

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Join or Die - A newspaper with a picture of a snake on it

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Benjamin Franklin's warning to the British colonies in America "join or die" exhorting them to unite against the French and the Natives, shows a segmented snake, "S.C., N.C., V., M., P., N.J., N.Y., [and] N.E."
Illus. in: The Pennsylvania gazette, 1754 May 9.
Published in: The ungentlemanly art ; a history of American political cartoons / Stephen Hess and Milton Kaplan. New York : Macmillan, [1968], p. 52 (II-3).
Published in: Eyes of the nation : a visual history of the United States / Vincent Virga and curators of the Library of Congress ; historical commentary by Alan Brinkley. New York : Knopf, 1997, p. 51.

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01/01/1754
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Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.
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