'Swing Low, Sweet Chariot' has been a familiar song at Twickenham for more than 30 years . AFP/Adrian DENNIS
But the recent Black Lives Matter protests, which included the toppling of a statue of a slave trader in the English city of Bristol, have led many British organisations to examine their historic links to slavery. Reportedly written by American slave Wallace Willis sometime in the mid 19th Century, ‘Swing Low’ is first believed to have been sung at Twickenham when Martin ‘Chariots’ Offiah was playing in the 1987 Middlesex Sevens tournament.
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