Join, or Die Black Flag 3'x5'

This is a large, 3 foot by 5 foot polyester flag with good durability and color retention.  This flag's light weight allows it to fly easily in very light breeze.  Perfect for making a statement at your next Tea Party rally!

'Join, or Die' is a well-known political cartoon, created by Benjamin Franklin and first published in his Pennsylvania Gazette on May 9, 1754. The original publication by the Gazette is the earliest known pictorial representation of colonial union produced by a British colonist in America. It is a woodcut showing a snake severed into eighths, with each segment labeled with the initials of a British American colony or region. New England was represented as one segment, rather than the four colonies it was at that time. In addition, Delaware and Georgia were omitted completely. Thus, it has 8 segments of snake rather than the traditional 13 colonies. The cartoon appeared along with Franklin's editorial about the "disunited state" of the colonies, and helped make his point about the importance of colonial unity. During that era, there was a superstition that a snake which had been cut into pieces would come back to life if the pieces were put together before sunset.

The cartoon became a symbol of freedom during the American Revolutionary War.

Source: Wikipedia