“What we unfortunate English people suffer here is beyond the probability of you in England to conceive. Let it suffice that I, one of the unhappy number, am toiling almost day and night, and very often in the horses’ drudgery, with only this comfort that: ‘You bitch, you do not half enough…’”    —undelivered letter from indentured servant, Elizabeth Spriggs, to her father, 1756 Wow. That’s not the way I heard it. School history books describe an honorable method for the poor, but hard-working colonist wannabes to finance their passages across the Atlantic. The textbook, The American Journey, says “Other men, ...