text:  people ask, well, why did people keep their quote-unquote slave name? You know, you hear that in contemporary conversations. But often enslaved people, until they could reconnect with their biological family or the family that had become a biological family for them, sometimes they chose to keep that name. Or in Viney's case, use the name as a marker in space. And sometimes the only way they could trace after being sold or separated, you know, across county lines, across state lines, was a name. One name.