Of the English women who came to Virginia in the seventeenth century,
A) a majority arrived as wives of merchants and English gentlemen.
B) a majority were indentured servants who labored in the tobacco fields, often facing early death and sexual abuse by masters.
C) most married very young, during their term of indentured service.
D) most remained single because women outnumbered male settlers ten to one.
E) most encountered social conditions that strengthened the traditional authority of husbands and fathers.
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