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Assassin’s Creed: Freedom Cry

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Ubisoft

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Julien Bazile

Université de Sherbrooke

Université de Lorraine

Email: Julien.Alexandre.Bazile@usherbrooke.ca

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The American Historical Review, Volume 126, Issue 1, March 2021, Pages 217–219, https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhab005

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21 April 2021

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“You have the brand of a slave, the eloquence of a scholar … hands of a sailor … and an Assassin’s hood.” This description of the game’s protagonist encompasses historiographical issues that make Assassin’s Creed: Freedom Cry worthy of interest. Located between the realms of fictional creation and historical reference, the game proposes to take part in a narrative of masters and slaves, victims and heroes, tools and agents.

Freedom Cry was first released as a DLC (a “downloadable content” requiring the main opus, Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag) and then published as a standalone version. It is part of the long-standing video game series Assassin’s Creed, initiated by Ubisoft in 2007—a saga renowned for its realistic representation of historical environments and various historical settings. In the Assassin’s Creed series, historical material is used to inform an epic and immersive experience. Made to be played and enjoyed all around the world, these games still claim to maintain a form of historical grounding. Freedom Cry is Ubisoft’s take on the subject of the trade and exploitation of slaves, a complex—and still painful—chapter of the Carribean’s history, not to mention one rarely seen in best-selling videogames.

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