What was the purpose of the Southern Black Codes?
A. Southern states wanted to prevent freedmen from getting an education.
B. Whites wanted to segregate the races in all public places.
C. Confederates aimed to control the movement of freemen in order to preserve the labor force for the Plantation South.
D. The South was spiting the Union for the Emancipation Proclamation and the 13th Amendment.
E. The Plantation owners were trying to encourage freemen to emigrate to other countries.