With which of the following statements would the author be most likely to agree?
A. The Freedmen's Bureau ultimately proved a success because it was able to guarantee freedmen Southern plantation and farm owners.
B. Freedmen were, in many ways, still slaves after the war because of their economic dependence on plantation and farm owners.
C. President Johnson's actions were guided by a desire to win the respect and loyalty of the Southern control freedmen.
D. Because Southerners had no resort to the judicial system, they employed violence as a means to private ownership of land.