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Originally Posted by LowlyAssassin

But I also think that piracy and pirates setting up trading posts in america might have been the early beginnings of the slave trade, (I would like an incite from an American)
As without the pirate ports and shipping routes setup by pirates then slavery would have happened differently,
So it may be that UBisoft is trying not to offend the descendants of the slave trade
But this is less likely as I think that link and jump from pirates in Havana has little to do with slavery and the slave trade

No. I don't think we would make that sort of jump. I'm sure there's SOMEONE out there that might, but certainly not the other 99.999999999% of Americans (even regardless of our skin-color/heritage). The only way Ubisoft could potentially open up a can of worms there would be if they included some sort of "little slave-child addition" to the ship dioarama/statue. In which case they deserve to be slapped!

I believe you are correct that the pirates in Havana are not tied (at least in the hive-minds of US) to the sordid history of slave-trade here in the US.

Where Ubisoft could run into trouble down the road may be if they did a civil-war era based AC. That could potentially ruffle some feathers on the slavery topic, particularly in the US media outlets who seem to thrive on making big issues of these types of things (i.e. trying to insinuate race wars etc. where there might not be).

That's my $.02 worth

P.s. Just in case there's any confusion that may come across in text, I'm a firm believer in racism - there's just ONE race, the HUMAN one! And members of this race should all be treated equally and fairly!