Ancestry TV Spot, 'History Channel: Henson Carroll'

Public historian Christy S. Coleman shares the lesser-known fact that years prior to the Emancipation Proclamation, President Abraham Lincoln actually signed the very first act of emancipation freeing enslaved people in Washington, D.C. The descendant of one of these first freed people, Andrew Holsey, connects with his great-great grandfather over their shared military experience in the nation's capital.