Story is Henry Adams Testimony Before Congress Which is on CommonLit

PART A: Which statement identifies the main idea of the text?

A

Even after receiving their freedom, black sharecroppers and their families continued to be treated as if they were slaves.

B

White landowners used fear and violence to force freedmen and their families to return to a life of slavery.

C

Freedmen in Shreveport encountered more prejudice and violence than other areas in the South after the abolition of slavery.

D

Henry Adams likely would have experienced better treatment as a sharecropper if he had worked for someone other than his former master.