Haplogroup E3a predominately (sub-Saharan African)
Haplotype E3b (Middle-eastern)
DNA markers for: Gambia, S. Africa, Ukraine, Zambia, Senegal, England, Native American with African admixture, unknown markers
In a nutshell, paternally:
The oldest Virginia slave to whom I can trace myself, Charity Carey, had two sons by the owner's son. Her origins are unknown as of the present. The owner's son, Tom Palmore, was a Palmore paternally and a Montague maternally. The Montagues can be traced back to England, to the English Montagues, Plantagenets, Norman Invaders, and Vikings. The Viking angle would explain my Ukraine DNA marker as the Vikings settled in the Russias. The surname Butler came from a Mississippi slave, Horatio Butler, who married Mollie Palmore, a granddaughter of slave Charity Carey, sold to somewhere in the state of "Ole Miss" but returned to Virginia after the Civil War. It is not currently known if Horatio Butler was related to the white Louisiana or Mississippi Butlers by blood.