Escaping Southern Prospectors at a young age, an African American slave finds out he's a descendant of the Assassins. 1860s America. After embracing his Assassin heritage the young boy, now an adult sides with the Union Army in the American Civil War as he soon discovers the people he had been enslaved by (the Confederates), are actually under the control of the Templar Order. And with most of the Assassins in the United States depleted their victory is flawless... ...or so they thought.