Following ______, Correctional Institutions in the South Were Devised to Maintain

question 57

Multiple Choice

Following ______, correctional institutions in the South were devised to maintain the slavery system with newly freed and often unemployed blacks.

• A) the Revolutionary War
• B) the ratification of the Constitution
• C) the Civil War
• D) World War II

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