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Joel Barlow suggests slaveowners turn into tyrants. What evidence from his
poem supports this inference?
A "Till men shall wonder (in these codes inured)/ How wars were made,
how tyrants were endured"
B "Tyrants are never free; and, small and great, / All masters must be tyrants
soon or late"
С
"See Rome's rude sire, with autocratic gait, / Tread down their tyrant and
erect their state"
D "So nature works, and oft the lordling knave / Turns out at once a tyrant
and a slave"

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D. This suggests that slave owners turn into tyrants.
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