Assassin’s Creed IV will tackle slavery, but won’t over-play it– “we’re going to focus on telling it like it was”

“It’s true that pirates were more egalitarian, but there was still quite a bit of bigotry at the time. Runaway slaves would often sail with pirates, but they were still not trusted with weapons, most of the time. I hope I deal with that in the script, very frankly.”

– ACIV lead writer Darby McDevitt