Professor of Sociology Kevin Anderson introduces Chapter 3: Race, Class, and Slavery: The Civil War as a Second American Revolution from his upcoming book Marx at the Margins: On Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Non-Western Societies. This was the start of the first session of the Historical Materialism Research Group (HMRG) at the University of California Santa Barbara. For more information visit: http://www.uweb.ucsb.edu/~jhsprague/hmrg.htm