African origins of the diaspora

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 Ivy_Grad wrote:

Omg I just typed a pseudo essay only to have my computer act up and refresh the page before I could hit submit.

Anywho
 I am soo happy you posted this topic!  I have been meaning to do some 
more investigation on this.  My mother's family is from Virginia, which 
has been known to keep pretty impeccable records from that era.  My father's family is from North Carolina.  I view both states as essentially the same region .

I
 have yet to do the DNA testing.  I remember traveling to Accra, Ghana 
for a wintersession program when I was in college.  I met this woman who
 I swore looked exactly like my maternal grandmother, I was soo drawn to
 her.  She was kind enough and gave me a hug when I told her I was from 
the states and she reminded me of my grandmother, probably thought I was
 as looney as a bedbug lol.  I have also met many persons from Nigeria 
who could pass for cousins of mine.  

In my cursory search I
 came across a website which looked at various regions of origin of 
African slaves that were imported into the state of Virginia.  In the 
Rappahanock region where my family is from, it looks like the majority 
of slaves came from the Senegambia region, where they most likely worked
 on tobacco plantations.  

http://research.history.org/historical_research/research_themes/themeenslave/slavetrade.cfm

LOl, I started this thread because just the other day, some dude followed me in a store and asked me if I was from Sierra Leone. I get that all the time with different nationalities.
You're lucky to come from an area with such impeccable records.