Bøker av Adam Platts

California Missions Requiem examines how the Spanish mission system in California attempted to control and subjugate the native people of California in the late 1700s and early 1800s. The book is divided into three sections: The first explores the nine missions established by padre Junipero Serra. The second traces the continued expansion of California's missions under the leadership of Francisco Lasuen. And the third touches upon the founding of the final three missions.

Empowered by Slavery examines how the institution of slavery was an integral part of early America's culture and civilization. It describes the power dynamics within antebellum America that permitted the use of African American slave labor to be ruthlessly exploited by America's political, military, and industrial leaders prior to the Civil War. Seven specific slave plantations are examined in this book, along with the plantation owners, as examples of the exploitative system that made a small number of white men extraordinarily wealthy.