History Channel teams with Ancestery.com to tell the stories of formerly enslaved people in a miniseries connected to its Abraham Lincoln documentary

Variety

Ancestry.com is sponsoring a three-part miniseries that will accompany History's three-part Lincoln documentary, which debuts February 20. “To me, this is not a commercial break, this is not a ‘brought to you by,’” David DeSocio, executive vice president of ad sales marketing and partnerships at A+E Networks, tells Variety. “It’s a continuation of the story, but on a very personal level.”