Blog- Primary Source Babylon is fallen

I focused on this song, since as I mentioned in the presentation, it is a good perspective of the political viewpoint of what the minstrel performers may have been wanting to express.
This song, when doing the research on it, is about the Blacks joining the Union army to fight in the civil war. Babylon is representing the South, so when the Blacks entered the Union to fight, they were aiming for the "fall of Babylon", or the Fall of the South.
"Don't you see de black clouds, risin' ober yonder, whar de massa's ole plantation am?" The Black clouds, a symbol for the Blacks, and they are rising over the plantation, where several Blacks could possibly be. The next line acknowledges the first " Dem is only Darkeys, come to jine an' fight for Uncle Sam", in other words it is only the Blacks coming to fight for the Union, possibly to save the other Africans from slavery.
Lastly, the end of the song is Babylon is Fallen, ending with the Africans going to occupy the land, meaning they are going to take over when the whites have left or been run off.
This song is significant because it shows that there were songs who that were showing a preference for a political stance, and that at least one of the minstrel composers were showing a preference for the North.