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To: ChinuSFO who wrote (38587)	10/17/2008 3:27:56 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) of 149317

Two Families Named McCain Candidate's Kin Share a History With Descendants of Slaves online.wsj.com By DOUGLAS A. BLACKMON "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...."

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