Content note: A cartoon showing Uncle Sam shaking hands with a shirtless Black man labelled 'Haiti', with piles of sisal and rubber, as drawn in 1943. This object is shown as it was published. Why
"Together again for freedom!!"
Uncle Sam shakes hands with a shirtless man labelled 'Haiti' while a cloud above shows two eighteenth-century soldiers with bayonets and the words 'Savannah' and 'Yorktown'; piles marked 'Sisal' and 'Rubber' lie to the left and a factory skyline to the right. The tell is transfer: Revolutionary War battle names are used to lend a historical frame to a wartime US-Haiti raw-materials partnership.
Propaganda techniques used in this cartoon
- Date
- 1943
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Office of War Information (cartoon artwork; artist Charles Alston)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Cartoon
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- Race and ethnicity, War and the military, Empire and colonialism
- Event
- World War II
- Regime
- Roosevelt administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives, RG 208, OWI Cartoon Artworks and Mockups (NAID 535594), retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
Office of War Information. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 208, 208-COM-184 (NAID 535669).
Text on the object
SAVANNAH YORKTOWN HAITI SISAL RUBBER "TOGETHER AGAIN FOR FREEDOM!!" Alston OWI
