Immediately After the Civil War, Many White Landowners _____

Immediately after the Civil War, many white landowners _____.

A) began advertising in the North and in Europe for farm workers, determined not to use black people as slaves again
B) attempted to recreate as much of the slave system as they could, even trying to use the whip to maintain discipline
C) could not understand how they were to treat the former slaves since they had never been in that situation before
D) decided to make the first overtures and offered shorter hours on their own, without forcing black people to work in gangs
E) sold their plantations rather than having to hire and pay free black people