The apprenticeship process for African American children & families in the South most directly reflects which of the following continuities:

A. President Johnson pardoning ex-Confederates and allowing them to come back to
reclaim their land

B. Wealthy southern whites power struggle trying to maintain control over freedmen

C. Southern states beginning to openly accept the 13th Amendment as the law

D. A stable family life became a part of the foundation of the African American
community