The black codes passed by southern state legislations?

Question

a. gave former slaves basic rights that whites already possessed
b. were an effort to create a stable work force
c. encouraged former slaves to enter non-agricultural occupations

Answer 1

B, blacks had to live really good,
they were not allowed to form more groupe than 3 people without white supervision,
no dogs for blacks
no walking without permission by whites.
etc...

if violated prisoned, and white farmers had to pay them to get out of the prison, and when out they were forced to pay the dept in whites farms.

Answer 2

b) just for the fact that the black codes for the most part wanted to regrees blacks politically and in society.