ched her destination. Between 80 and 90 percent of the English folk who emigrated came as indentured servants. This meant that the great majority of the anonymous, young, single women who journeyed to the new world arrived not as free people but as bound laborers, having contracted to work off the cost of their passage by serving, typically for four or seven years, in the household of the person who had put up the money for their transport. First, these young women toiled for men who were their masters. After their debts had been satisfied they could work alone with their husband on small plantation.
             These women worked at cultivating silk and unearthing minerals. In the winter, the beginning of the tobacco production cycle, an Englishwomen would have spent those hou
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