The article How ‘The Birth of a Nation’ Silences Black Women from the New York Times brings to light how the horrors faced by female slaves in America are not depicted in our discussions today. Rather, the prospective of the male slave and the emasculative life they endured are depicted instead. The argument that the author, Salamishah Tillet, provides is that in all of the narratives about Nat Turner, the raping of women and the violence they faced was just another factor or source of motivation for his rebellion. Attention is taken away from the rapes and focused more on the effects on Nat Turner himself. When referring to the victimization of enslaved African American women, Tillet states, “…their voices sidelined to the plot of Turner’s realizations of his own manhood in the horror of slavery.” When asked to think of this in the context of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, I think of the raping and torture of his Aunt Hester. The impact this had of Frederick Douglass was evident. He speaks angrily of the event and even says how he feels like the attack on her made him feel victimized as well. This is an autobiography so one would assume Frederick Douglas would just provide the impact these violent occurrences had on him. Even so, he still depicted the “importance” of the events that women had to go through. What the New York Times article is suggesting is that in narratives and movies trying to bring light to the struggles of slaves, the hardships of being a female slave, which were just as bad if not worse than that of men, are often overlooked and silenced by the attention of the victimization of the male slaves’ manhood.