The Following Questions Refer to the Excerpt Below

The following questions refer to the excerpt below.
"I told him I thought that every man,when he was free,could have his rights and protect [himself].He said,"The colored people could never protect themselves among the white people.So you had all better stay with the white people who raised you and make contracts with them to work by the year for one-fifth of all you make.And next year you can get one-third,and the next you maybe work for one-half you make.We have contracts for you all to sign,to work for one-twentieth you make from now until the crop is ended,and then next year you all can make another crop and get more of it.""
Senate Report 693,46th Congress,2nd Session,1880
-One reason for the development of the system described in this excerpt was that

A) Southern plantation owners continued to own the majority of the region's land.
B) the 13^th and 14^th Amendments were ratified during the process of Reconstruction.
C) radical Republicans dominated the U.S. Congress.
D) laws enforcing segregation were passed throughout the South.