Freedmen Nation Marketplace: New Guidelines for Verified Vendors
- Freedmen Nation
- Jun 24, 2025
- 2 min read
The Freedmen Nation Marketplace is more than a directory — it’s a protected economic zone built by and for Verified Freedmen. As we expand, we’re introducing official Marketplace Guidelines to maintain the integrity, professionalism, and self-governance that define our Trust.
If you’re ready to offer goods or services under the protection of the Freedmen Reparations Fund Trust, these guidelines will walk you through exactly what’s required.
🔷 Why This Matters
This isn’t open to just anyone. The Freedmen Nation Marketplace was created to:
Showcase Verified Freedmen businesses
Preserve cultural and economic independence
Protect our identity and economy from outside exploitation
Elevate standards across our community
✅ Submission Requirements
To be listed, you must submit:
Business Name & Contact Info
Website or Online Storefront
Landscape Graphic that highlights your shop name (JPG or PNG, min. 1200x600px)
Short Business Description (3–5 sentences)
Category (e.g., Apparel, Digital Services, Skilled Trades, etc.)
Shipping or Fulfillment Timeline
Optional Promotions or Discounts
🚫 This Is For Verified Freedmen Only
No exceptions. No vulgar or inappropriate content.
No businesses that misrepresent our identity.
This Marketplace is governed by status, not race, and protected by Trust law.
📄 Download the Official Guidelines
To ensure your listing is complete and meets the standard, download the full Marketplace Guidelines here:
📬 Ready to Join?
Submit your materials now through our official contact form:
You’ll receive a response within 5–10 business days.
🔁 Final Word
We’re building a legacy economy that works for us — not for charity, not for assimilation, and not for outsiders. This is Trust-Governed, Status-Based, Verified Freedmen Only.
Let’s grow together.
Let’s protect what’s ours.
Let’s circulate our value.
1921 Tulsa, OK Black Wall Street Provided us with a template of how organized goods and services provide growth and prosperity for our families financial growth.
The First Freedmen Owned Supply Chain.
Their success was building networks of products and services through each other, having no choice, having been locked out from national foods, beverages, apparel, schools, and Government contracts...
Only as a consumers of products they could partake, spend our hard earned money with them, No way in hell they spend their money with us buying our products or services.
Jim Crow's segregation limited that access to the poor white stores in the community.
Building out their legacy, and their supply chains...How smart was that?
And last but not…