Your challenge, should you accept it, is to replace Africa as the primary source of slaves in the New World with East Indians, Chinese, and other Asians, particularly in the US.
Your challenge, should you accept it, is to replace Africa as the primary source of slaves in the New World with East Indians, Chinese, and other Asians, particularly in the US.
Too far and too advanced. Africa is right in the door step. Asia only became backward by 19th century when slavery was winding down.
If you put a pod with a backward Asia, would you think everything else in Europe and the new world will happen just like in otl. A lot of those exploration were due to Asian prowess and wealth.