User blog comment:D. Cello/Assassinews 03/01 -- Assassin's Creed III era and boxart revealed/@comment-5227010-20120302041822/@comment-5574039-20120302212809

Or.....what if he was Creole? And there were slaves during the American Revolution. Some 100,000 slaves fought for Britain because they were promised personal freedom...don't know how far that promise would have went though...:-/