The "black codes" of many Southern states in the 1830s were intended to (A) force Northern states to return runaway slaves to their Southern masters (B) prevent slave rebellions by allowing the execution of any slave found guilty of attempting to gain his or her freedom (C) limit the rights of freed blacks and force them to migrate to Northern states where they couldn't serve as models for slaves to idolize or emulate (D) keep all blacks in servitude by refusing to recognize any black as free and allowing so-called "free blacks" to be rounded up and enslaved whenever a shortage of slave labor developed (E) deal with the increased number of people of mixed race (due to white slaveholders impregnating black slaves) by setting up strict standards as to who was genetically white and who was genetically black.

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