Answer: Because they were property.
Explanation: Slave owners did not let slaves keep their names because they were merely property that was constantly being bought and sold. If you don't have a name then you're seen as an object, people simply didn't feel bad for objects.
Songhai empire
Explanation:
mali was know as the dynastic state in west africa but during the regime of Sonni Ali the Songhai empire surpassed the malian empire in area, wealth and power absorbing vast areas of the mali empire and reached it greatest extent.
D.) assembly line process of production.
The delegates argued about many things.One of the main things was if slaves counted as part of the population.I the north they didn't have much use for slaves.If slaves counted for the population then there wouldn't be many northern representatives.The south however had a major use for slaves.If slaves counted for them then they would have many representatives.