Untitled political cartoon: Franklin and Pennsylvania's powerful Quakers, 1764
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In this political cartoon, Pennsylvania's powerful Quaker merchants and political leaders are shown to be encouraging the Indians' attacks, being overly friendly with their women, and playing fast and loose with the government. Franklin, watching it all with a bag of gold, is represented as caring for nothing but his own success, despite his words of mediation.
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