text:  They may not necessarily be published, but several of the ministers were poets. Half of them are loyalists. The other half are British patriots. All of them have come together to find out whether or not you are capable of writing something and whether or not this is a lie. Notwithstanding, also, it was illegal at the time or extremely frowned upon to be educating slaves in general. So this is about your entire future being placed on the line. This is unprecedented. No one's ever done this before.