Select the correct answer. In this
excerpt from Phillip Freneau's poem "American Liberty," the speaker describes being "slaves and minions to a parliament." What is the
intended meaning of this hyperbole?
And should we now when spread thro' evry shore,
Submit to that our fathers shunn'd before?
Should we, just heaven, our blood and labour spent,
be slaves and minions to
parliament?
Perish the thought, nor may
one wretch remain,
Who dares not fight and in our cause be slain;
OA
The speaker feels that the colonists should pay their share of taxes.
O B. The speaker belleves that the British government is broken and should be fixed.
O c. The speaker thinks that the colonists are being unfairly treated by the British government.
O D. The speaker intends to lead a slave revolt against the British government.