Context: In the colonial years, while conditions were more fluid, white women, indentured servant or free, and African men, servant, slave or free, made unions. Because the women were free, their mixed-race children were born free; they and their descendants formed most of the families of free people of color during the colonial period in Virginia. The scholar Paul Heinegg found that eighty percent of the free people of color in North Carolina in censuses from 1790–1810 could be traced to families free in Virginia in colonial years.

Question: When could white women and black men be in a union?
Answer: In the colonial years

Question: Where did 80% of free people of color in NC come from?
Answer: Virginia in colonial years

Question: What is Paul Heinegg?
Answer: scholar

Question: What censuses did he study?
Answer: from 1790–1810

Question: Who made unions with African women during the colonial years?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What happened to mixed-race children from mothers who were enslaved?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What can eighty percent of enslaved people of color in North Carolina be traced to?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What percentage of free people of color in Virginia can be traced to families in North Carolina?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: Who made unions with African men after the colonial years?
Answer: Unanswerable