2. What do the words in bold mean in the context of the passage? 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.
A. accusations, exonerate
B. accusations, incriminate
C. alternatives, exonerate
D. alternatives, incriminate