The Only Use
exculpate
in
The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
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- I would allow myself to suffer under the greatest imputations which evil-minded men might suggest, rather than exculpate myself, and thereby run the hazard of closing the slightest avenue by which a brother slave might clear himself of the chains and fetters of slavery.†
Chpt 11
Definitions:
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(1)
(exculpate) clear of guilt or blame
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)