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- Adéwalé: ""And there are a few [of the crew] talking about meeting with Master Kidd to steal from a nearby plantation."
- Edward: "A plantation? That's ambitious."
- Adéwalé: "Profitable too, if we can manage it."
- —Adéwalé and Edward Kenway discuss the risks and rewards of stealing from a sugar plantation, 1715.[src]
Throughout the 17th and 18th century, sugar plantations were highly prevalent and profitable in the Caribbean. Typically owned by a single family, they were normally worked by said family's slaves, and guarded by a sizeable contingent of soldiers.
During the early 18th century, the Beckford and Drax estates owned, between them, the majority of the plantations in the Caribbean. Because of the possible rewards obtainable from a successful raid, sugar plantations were a promising, if risky, target for pirates.