The Only Use of
exculpate
in
The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
- 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
Definition:
clear of guilt or blame