Bound Over Author:John Van Der Zee From 1609 until well after the founding of the republic, half of all the colonists who came to America did so under some form of involuntary labor. In "Bound Over: Indentured Servitude and American Conscience", John Van Der Zee draws on original memoirs, newspapers, and pamphlets to re-create the fascinating almost novelistic life stories of a n... more »umber of the remarkable men and women whose enshacklement and destitution paved the way for American freedom.« less