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What was the Melungeon's origin?
In 1662, children born in the colonies were assigned the social status of their mother, regardless of their father's ethnicity or citizenship.
What classified their origin ?
This meant the children of enslaved African or African-American women were born into slavery. But it also meant the children of free white or mulatto women were born free.

Question: What states did they originate in?
Self-contained rewrite: What states did the Melungeon people originate in?