The excerpt below was printed in a magazine in the South in 1866:

We should be satisfied to compel them to engage in coarse, common manual labor, and to punish them for dereliction of duty or non fulfillment of their contracts with such severity, as to make them useful, productive laborers.

Source: http://home.gwu.edu/~jjhawkin/BlackCodes/rptBlackCodes.pdf

Which of the following would the author of this excerpt most likely have supported?

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The excerpt below was printed in a magazine in the South in 1866:

We should be satisfied to compel them to engage in coarse, common manual labor, and to punish them for dereliction of duty or non fulfillment of their contracts with such severity, as to make them useful, productive laborers.

Source: http://home.gwu.edu/~jjhawkin/BlackCodes/rptBlackCodes.pdf

Which of the following would the author of this excerpt most likely have supported?

anonymous · Answer

"Which of the following..."? Are there any choices?

anonymous · Answer

yes

anonymous · Answer

the formation of the freedman's bureau 

the ratification of the fourteenth amendment 

the passage of the black codes and jim crow laws

the relocations of emancipated slaves ro colonies in africa

anonymous · Answer

More than likely it would be C due to the fact that many doubted the labor of free blacks and wanted to enforce punishments on lack of effort. 
In itself, it was just another method to punish free blacks.

anonymous · Answer

can you help me with one more ?

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thank you sooo much !! btw