sentences:  Often these names served as a way for Europeans to divide Africans in a familiar manner, disregarding ethnicity or origin.Anthropologist Jack Goody stated, "Such new names served to cut the individuals off from their kinfolk, their society, from humanity itself and at the same time emphasized their servile status".A critical part of the initiation of any sort of collective identity for African-born slaves began with relationships formed on slave ships crossing the middle passage.