Ancestry.com apologized Thursday for a controversial advertisement published to its YouTube channel earlier this month. The ad appeared to show a white man trying to convince a black woman in what ...

The ad set in 1800s America depicted a white man asking a black woman named Abigail to "escape to the north" with him. "Will you leave with me?" the man asks, ring in hand. The Ancestry.com video, ...

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