Which statement identifies the main idea of the text? A: Even after receiving their freedom, black sharecroppers and their families continued to be treated as if they were slaves.

B: White landowners used fear and violence to force freedmen and their families to return to a life of slavery.

C: Ereedmen in Shreveport encountered more prejudice and violence than other areas in the South after the abolition of slavery.

D: Henry Adams likely would have experienced better treatment as a sharecropper if he had worked for someone other than his former master.