From Indian Territory/Oklahoma and the Chickasaw Nation to Liberia: The Saga of Hannah LOVE

The Saga of Hannah Love

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The story of Chickasaw Freedmen the former slaves of Chickasaw Indians is not well known. When the Chickasaw tribe was removed to Indian Territory they brought with them hundreds of enslaved people of African and African-Native descent.

 Once they were emancipated in 1866 the next forty years, they lived among the Chickasaw without the citizenship that was included in the Treaty of 1866. Richmond and Hannah were part of that removal and emancipation.

 

Once Indian Territory the state now known as Oklahoma Richmond and Hannah had been nurturing their two children and many grandchildren in a community known as Wynnewood. 

 

Wynnewood would undergo many changes that the Love family noticed and began to consider "removing" their family members back to Africa, specifically Liberia. 

 

This video was created to highlight the courage this family had to uproot themselves, this time, their choice and give up the land and citizenship they finally realized after surviving the struggles of enslavement, Jim Crow and lynching’s that were front page news for the communities of Wynnewood and Pauls Valley, Oklahoma