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==Music== According to the humor of the time, Pastor wrote several songs that negatively portrayed ethnic stereotypes, such as "The Contraband's Adventures", the story of a freed slave. After the slave is set free by [[Union Army|Union]] soldiers, he attends an anti-slavery meeting where the [[Abolitionism in the United States|abolitionists]] try to scrub off his dark pigment. The slave concludes by singing... <blockquote> ...De nigger will be nigger till de day of jubilee<br> For he never was intended for a white man.<br> Den just skedaddle home-leave de colored man alone;<BR> For you're only making trouble for de nation;<BR> You may fight and you may fuss<BR> But you never will make tings right<BR> Until you all agree for to let de nigger be<BR> For you'll neber, neber, neber wash him white! </blockquote> Though he separated some ethnic groups in his music, he also intended to unite the lower and middle classes. In songs like "The Upper and Lower Ten Thousand", he defended the common man of the Bowery: <blockquote> If an [[Upper-Ten]] fellow a swindler should be<BR> And with thousands of dollars of others make free<BR> Should he get into court, why, without any doubt,<BR> The matter's hushed up and they'll let him step out.<BR> If a Lower-Ten Thousand chap happens to steal,<BR> For to keep him from starving, the price of a meal,<BR> Why the law will declare it's a different thing-<BR> For they call him a thief, and he's sent to [[Sing-Sing]]! </blockquote><br />
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