Love spent the last decades of his life in Jamaica, where he held political office, published a newspaper, and advocated for the island's black majority.

He was forced to end his career in church due to a quarrel, and he became a doctor in the Haitian army that engaged with the revolt in Haiti.

[4] Love piloted a voter registration drive, as a means of empowering the black majority, and challenging white minority rule.

The white elite in the Colony of Jamaica worried that Love was filling the heads of black people with dangerous ideas of racial equality.

John Vassall Calder claimed that black people lacked the mental capacities to thrive, and stated: “Dr.

He is aggrieved because my forefathers rescued him from the bonds of thraldom and deprived him the privilege of being King of the Congo, enjoying the epicurean and conjugal orgies and the sacrificial pleasures of his ancestral home in Africa.”[5] The white establishment viewed Love with as much suspicion as they did the pan-African Native Baptist preacher, Alexander Bedward.

Love's activism in favour of Jamaica's economically depressed black majority influenced later Jamaican and Caribbean activists, including Marcus Garvey.