Continuing from WI: Asian Slaves in 16th Century America.
The POD of the ATL is the early Christianization of West Africa and alternate New Laws proposed by Bartolome de Casas which forbids enslavement of African people. Due to the restrictions, several Iberian colonies in the Americas undergoes an economic downturn.
However, a loophole in the alternate New Laws combined with the European expeditions into the East Indies and the establishment of trading posts in Asia causes an opportunity to gain slave labor. The Trans-Pacific Slave Trade is established as people around Asia enslaved by being captured in raids, purchased in auctions or ended up being sold.
The Asian slaves are shipped in slave freighters heading to the Iberian colonies in America, mostly Peru, Mexico, Chile and Brazil. Upon landing, they are sent to work in tasks such as mining, sugarcane farming, fishing and other dangerous tasks assigned for slaves.
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In the colonies, the necessity of easy communication between Iberian masters and Asian slaves of many different ethnicities causes the formation of a creole language known as Basa Prendiz. The language is the result of pidgin forms of Portuguese, Spanish and other plethora of Asian languages mixing together to form a creole.
The major ethnic stock of the Asian slaves in the Iberian colonies of America are:
The POD of the ATL is the early Christianization of West Africa and alternate New Laws proposed by Bartolome de Casas which forbids enslavement of African people. Due to the restrictions, several Iberian colonies in the Americas undergoes an economic downturn.
However, a loophole in the alternate New Laws combined with the European expeditions into the East Indies and the establishment of trading posts in Asia causes an opportunity to gain slave labor. The Trans-Pacific Slave Trade is established as people around Asia enslaved by being captured in raids, purchased in auctions or ended up being sold.
The Asian slaves are shipped in slave freighters heading to the Iberian colonies in America, mostly Peru, Mexico, Chile and Brazil. Upon landing, they are sent to work in tasks such as mining, sugarcane farming, fishing and other dangerous tasks assigned for slaves.
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In the colonies, the necessity of easy communication between Iberian masters and Asian slaves of many different ethnicities causes the formation of a creole language known as Basa Prendiz. The language is the result of pidgin forms of Portuguese, Spanish and other plethora of Asian languages mixing together to form a creole.
The major ethnic stock of the Asian slaves in the Iberian colonies of America are:
- Malays
- Chinese
- Thais
- Koreans
- Japanese
- Visayans
- Iban
- Batak
- Negritos
- Javanese
- Tagalogs
- Vietnamese
- Tamils
- Konkani