I for one think the game sort of soft sells slavery. Few of the slaves are shown as characters, when you interact with them on sugar plantations that just pray a lot, run away, or very quietly cheer you. But, I do think the new Adéwalé’s DLC will helpful if you do think they did a very soft gloss on the subject. The story line of that DLC is all about slavery, and you play as Adéwalé’ for most or all of it...or so it appears. I think that was a better choice than Kenway since, a former slave-turned pirate avoids that 'white savior' implication for the story.

In the end, I'm not mad or happy about the way slavery was handled in the main game, I can see the pros and cons of directly dealing with the subject or not. If you make it a focus, the game becomes just scary, which is weird to say about a game where you stab people in the throat a million times. But, I think any story about slavery needs to be well done; the world has done enough poor/half-ass attempts, so I hope the focus of the above DLC does a good story.

Let's attempt to keep this discussion civil. I know that is what we all want, so let's at least try to listen as well as we talk. I'd like to know what people think.

It has basically nothing to do with the plot of the game outside of the Aveline extra content, play the DLC and then talk about it if you like. Adewale is a nice character but as far as the game goes his background doesn't really have much of an impact on it. The most progressive character is the main antagonist.