The idea of American independence was indeed controversial in the 1770s, but was in large part driven by the aftermath of the French and Indian War, which was a significant reason why many of the founding fathers seemed to have such a complete shift in their opinion on the idea of being subjects of the Crown. Joined by John Adams, Roger Sherman, Robert Livingston and the primary author of the document Thomas Jefferson, this so-called Committee of Five was tasked with putting to words the feelings of many of the colonists at the time that independence from Britain had become necessary, something that might have been unthinkable just a few years earlier. The pro-Britain cartoon is usually attributed to Benjamin Franklin himself, and yet, just twenty two years after its publication, on June 11, 1776, a then-seventy-year-old Benjamin Franklin was appointed to a group that would go on to create the Declaration of Independence.
One of the oldest known political cartoons, this image was originally designed to rally the American colonies to behind the British cause in the French and Indian War (1754-1763). On May 9, 1754, Benjamin Franklin published the political cartoon “Join, or Die” in the Pennsylvania Gazette, a Philadelphia-based newspaper that he owned. WATCH: Ingenious: The Evolution of Innovation.Harry Potter: The Exhibition - NOW OPEN!.
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