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		<title>Why I write about slavery</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few days ago, I recieved an interesting email through this website.  Debra wrote, &#8220;First, honestly and exactly what is your true motivation for having chosen to study slavery in American? Second, what is your religion and the background of your American and European ancestors? Third, should you be unwilling to honestly answer my two [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.danrasmussen.net/2011/02/why-i-write-about-slavery/</link>
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		<title>Thank You &#8211; and what you can do to help</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I wanted to write and thank you for your wonderful emails and support for my book, American Uprising: The Untold Story of America&#8217;s Largest Slave Revolt. I&#8217;ve been so honored and uplifted by your reactions and I could not have imagined a better response. I set out to publish this book with two overriding goals [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.danrasmussen.net/2011/02/thank-you-and-what-you-can-do-to-help/</link>
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		<title>A Re-Trial</title>
		<description><![CDATA[group of organizations in New Orleans, led by the Greater New Orleans Louis A. Martinet Legal Society, will be hosting a re-trial of the slave rebels who fought and died for their freedom in 1811.  I wish I was down in New Orleans to see this amazing event!  Congratulations to all the sponsors on bringing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.danrasmussen.net/2011/02/a-re-trial/</link>
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		<title>New York Times Bestseller!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was thrilled to find American Uprising on the New York Times bestseller list. Thank you to everyone who has bought the book &#8211; I&#8217;m really thrilled that the story is catching on. http://www.nytimes.com/best-sellers-books/hardcover-nonfiction/list.html]]></description>
		<link>http://www.danrasmussen.net/2011/01/new-york-times-bestseller/</link>
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		<title>PenTales Story Contest</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My good friend Stephanie Hodges runs a worldwide salon and education network that promotes the long lost art of storytelling. It&#8217;s an incredibly cool idea and a wonderful organization that&#8217;s having a real impact. PenTales is sponsoring a writing contest, that I will be judging, on the theme of revolt. If you&#8217;re a writer or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.danrasmussen.net/2011/01/pentales-story-contest/</link>
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		<title>Story on the Daily Beast website</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I published a story on the Daily Beast website about the 1811 revolt today.  In my next post, details of my trip down to New Orleans&#8230; http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-01-09/new-orleans-forgotten-slave-revolt-by-dan-rasmussen-american-uprising-author/?cid=topic:mainpromo1 Two hundred years ago today, three slaves gathered in a small rundown cabin on a plantation about thirty miles upriver from New Orleans.   Charles Deslondes was the son [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.danrasmussen.net/2011/01/story-on-the-daily-beast-website/</link>
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		<title>Blog Reviews</title>
		<description><![CDATA[American Uprising has been getting a lot of attention on various blogs, and I wanted to share a few of my favorite reviews: &#8220;“Rasmussen writes with a youthful enthusiasm and is very passionate about this material, and it shows. His detailed descriptions of life during that time, garnered from very thorough research, put the reader [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.danrasmussen.net/2011/01/blog-reviews/</link>
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		<title>Op-Ed in the New Orleans Times-Picayune</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have an opinion piece in the New Orleans Times-Picayune. Check it out: http://www.nola.com/opinions/index.ssf/2011/01/1811_slave_revolt_cant_be_forg.html Two hundred years ago this Saturday, the city of New Orleans faced one of the greatest crises in its history. &#8220;All were on alert,&#8221; wrote Commodore John Shaw. &#8220;General confusion and dismay &#8230; prevailed throughout the city.&#8221; The American governor of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.danrasmussen.net/2011/01/op-ed-in-the-new-orleans-times-picayune/</link>
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		<title>American Uprising Debuts Today</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today is the publication date for American Uprising. I couldn&#8217;t be more thrilled to finally have the book on sale. You can buy it anywhere books are sold and through the links on this website. I hope that this book will help change the way we think about American slavery by emphasizing the heroism, sophistication, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.danrasmussen.net/2011/01/american-uprising-debuts-today/</link>
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		<title>Violent Visions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[American Uprising began as my senior thesis at Harvard; Violent Visions; Slaves, Sugar, and the 1811 German Coast Uprising.  I thought I&#8217;d share the thesis here online (Click here to download: VIOLENT_VISIONS).  I wrote Violent Visions in a different style than American Uprising. I think of it as the google maps version of the story [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.danrasmussen.net/2010/12/violent-visions/</link>
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