All of the Following Are True Statements About the Black

question 1

Multiple Choice

All of the following are true statements about the Black Codes except  

• A) blacks were forced to work under labor contracts for little money for one year.
• B) blacks who fled their employers could be dragged back to work by a paid "Negro-catcher."
• C) they restricted the conditions under which blacks could legally marry.
• D) blacks who fled could be made to forfeit back wages or hired out to pay their fines.
• E) they were designed to reproduce the master-slave relationship after slavery was abolished.

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