What was the primary purpose of southern implementation of black codes? a)to authorize the use of force to implement the thirteenth amendment..b)to create standard alphabet and language for blacks to begin )to ensure that blacks would remain landless and )to repeal the emancipation proclamation after the civil war

C. to ensure that blacks would remain landless and subservient.

The Black Codes were passed in the South following the end of the Civil War in an effort to control the newly freed slaves. The Black Codes were a set of laws passed in the South which prevented blacks from working certain jobs and restricted where they could live. The laws kept many freed persons on the land they had worked as slaves in systems of sharecropping.