We should be satisfied to compel them to engage in coarse, common manual labor, and to punish them for dereliction of duty or non fulfillment of their contracts with such severity, as to make them useful, productive laborers. source: ~jjhawkin/blackcodes/rptblackcodes. pdf which of the following would the author of this excerpt most likely have supported? a) the formation of the freedmen's bureau b) the ratification of the fourteenth amendment c) the passage of black codes and jim crow laws d) the relocation of emancipated slaves to colonies in africa