The Volunteer Council on Freedmen Affairs 

OUR MISSION is to create community amongst Freedmen Descendants, Friends and Supporters of Freedmen Culture, History and Heritage.

GOAL FOCUSED to restore the narrative on reparative justice to Freedmen Descendants including:

-providing resources that will foster strong and stable livelihoods promised to Freedmen Ancestors in exercising their rights as equal participants in the United States.

-developing and administering quality programs that promote and foster progressive societal economies for communities serving Freedmen Descendants.

The term Freedmen was first used by the United States Congress around the year 1861 to describe people formerly enslaved of Negro phenotype (observable characteristics and traits). Today, the term Freedmen is an ethnicity to described a descendant of an ancestor classified as Negro, Black or Colored emancipated from slavery; or a free dark skinned person relegated to third-class citizenship before their country's emancipation or independence. Some Freedmen are descendants of those kidnapped from Africa. Others have ancestors that were free but re-classified a slave for having dark skin. Before colonization, dark pigmented persons were indigenous to every area subjected to the transatlantic slave trade. These areas included all of the American Continent, Caribbean Islands, the Bahamas, Bermuda Islands and many Melanesian Islands. As a result of mixing and forced breading of dark pigmented indigenous persons to kidnapped and trafficked Africans; the soil of the before mentioned areas became the ethno-genesis for Freedmen. The Volunteer Council on Freedmen Affairs does not use the term “Black” to associate Freedmen with a race construct. Instead, The Council identifies all persons by their ethnicity and/or nationality. Included in The Council's mission is justice and reparations for descendants of ethnic Freedmen with nationalities from every area impacted by the transatlantic slave trade... all of which have valid and distinct claims.