With female servants pregnancies, masters most urgent task was to 'solve' the 'problem' of the conflict between women's roles as producers of tobacco and reproducers of human beings. This profit + loss was main reason for difference between English and African female servants. When females got pregnant they had to be supported and were a drain on the budgets of the parish and the county and also the entire profit system of indentured might be disrupted (expenses of her lost service, expenses the master had to take on because she couldn't work while pregnant, and expenses the master had to take on due to caring for a small child).

Then try StudyFetch, the AI-powered platform that can answer your questions and teach you more about it!