"Every negro is required to be in the regular service of some white person, or former owner, who shall be held responsible for the conduct of said negro. But said employer or former owner may permit said negro to hire his own time by special permission in writing." — Opelousas, Louisiana Black Code, 1865
Which later development most clearly continued the labor-control logic in this ordinance?
- A
Pacific Railway Act land grants to railroad corporations
- B
Federal land redistribution under the Southern Homestead Act
- C
Industrial wage labor in the textile mills of New England
- Dcheck_circle
Sharecropping and crop-lien systems that tied freedpeople to landlords and merchants
Explanation
Sharecropping and crop-lien arrangements perpetuated the dependency the Black Codes sought to enforce, binding freedpeople to landowners through debt rather than law.