When the slaves sang the song Swing Low Sweet Chariot what were they saying?
Old Uncle Wallace wrote this song or first sang the words– which some one wrote down for him– one day as he and his wife were picking cotton just east of this town I live in, Hugo, Oklahoma, located in the Red River Valley. They were in a field near the small community of Spencerville,Oklahoma, a few miles east of Hugo. picking cotton for their master or bossman. Uncle Wallace was an old man by that time and had once lived in slavery. The song then spread from one community to another, soon all the slaves were singing it.
