TEOC, Miss. -- Lillie McCain is watching the presidential
campaign from a singular perspective.  A 56-year-old psychology
professor whose family spans five generations from the
enslavement of her great-great-grandparents to her own
generation's fight for civil rights, Ms. McCain appreciates the
social changes that have opened the way for Sen. Barack Obama to
be the first major-party black contender for the White House.
WSJ's Douglas Blackmon speaks with Charles McCain Jr. and his
sister Mary McCain Fluker, descendants of slaves held at the
Mississippi plantation owned by the family of Sen. John McCain's
great-great-grandfather. (Oct. 16)  But she also has an uncommon
view on another American passage. Ms. McCain and her siblings
are descended from two of about 120 slaves held before the end
of the Civil War at Teoc, the Mississippi plantation owned by
the family of Republican nominee John McCain's great-great-
grandfather.  In a year when the historic nature of Sen. Obama's
candidacy is drawing much comment, t