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The answer is B. Fredrick Douglass never describes his means of escape. He didn't want to disclose the information because he didn't want slaveholders to know how he or any other slave could have escaped.
<span>The correct answer is C. Quotation marks are always used in pairs. A is incorrect, because titles can also be italicized rather than marked with quotations, depending on the piece. B is incorrect, because they are indeed used for citing someone's exact words. D is incorrect, because italics are more often used to emphasize a word. </span>
The participle in the sentence (the participle is stacked because it is a verb being used to modify a noun) modifies the word NEWSPAPERS