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.


c

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