In Douglass’s autobiography, he usually associates women of color with pain and suffering. Although during this time period most women were seen as proper, wearing voluptuous dresses and always acting lady like, women of color had it much differently. Douglass recreates disturbing accounts of black women slaves being beaten and abused by their masters. Slave owners saw these women only as pieces of property in which they could do as they please with them with no consequences to follow. According to the article it says that these slaves that were raped are usually “doubly marginalized,” meaning that they are treated as extremely insignificant human being despite the horrors that they went through. This can be seen by the beating of Aunt Hester in Douglass’s autobiography and by how little people react or care about the situation. The beating of female slaves was a common occurrence on plantations and made them feel even more worthless and abused than they already are. In most cases women were separated from their husbands and children and thus were able to get no support from loved ones after these traumatic experiences. The article describes how husbands sold to different plantations than their wives, “had no more power to protect her than the man who lies bound upon a plundered vessel’s deck has power to protect his wife on board the pirate-schooner disappearing in the horizon.” One of the most powerful statements in this movie regarding the treatment of women can best be seen in the director’s choice to have a raped slave named Esther to have no dialogue at all in the movie. The actress who plays this slave says, “all her emotions are communicated through facial expressions.” This is expressed during moments of ferocious violence in Douglass’s book. Both this article and Douglass’s autobiography open the reader up to seriousness and severity of the treatment of women of color during this time period.