Reposting about Assassin's Creed Red
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The most hilarious part is they could have easily just swapped. You are the black slave trying to become a samurai for Oda Nobunaga and kunoichis were a things (though mostly seducers than sneaky peeps but people don't need to know that part).
The black slave thing though still doesn't sound right as wasn't the only outside trade they had was with the Dutch only or is the game set even before then. Where the fuck would a black person even get onto Japan when it finally took an American armada to open them up for trade.
Ye I don't believe it either but it has become so accepted that I think they could get away with it.
Japan also had trade with the portugueses, and Portugal had many black slaves.
But taking them to Japan? I don't think so especially considering they were on such thin ice with the Japanese that eventually led the Christian rebellion that saw Christian converts try to overthrow the government
...it didn't go well, the rebels all die, Christianity and Portuguese where banned from Japan and the Dutch became the only trading partner.....because they traded guns to the government during the rebellion.
I think it is not impossible, considering that the portuguese used black slaves in all other colonies. Here is a depiction of portugueses in japan in XVI century, you can clearly see a black slave carrying a big umbrella.
There is also the famous story of yasuke, a black guy born in moçambique (Portugal Colony) who became a warrior in japan.