Both the New York Times Article and the Douglass ‘s Autobiography gave me a sense of how women in color were treated, and I think those women were the most suffered during the slavery period. They must be so painful. In the article, the author stated more than one time , that the women in color were silenced. I think this is an expression of the patrilineal society, where women had no right and freedom. That’s why women in Turner’s story is not so important to focus. Turner’s wife who was a slave “belonged to a different master”, how can we imagine what happened to this poor woman.In the Douglass’s Autobiography, it was different, where he told the real lives of the women in color. There were three important women.  The first woman was Douglass’s mother, who was raped by her master. Douglass had described his mother in the first chapter, which we can found out how important that he thinks about his mother’s encounter. This poor woman gave birth to her child but cannot spare anytime with her child, because she was a slave and had to work. Second woman is his Aunt, who was tortured and couldn’t  tell. In the novel, his mother and aunt didn’t say anything, but we can feel their sorrow and sadness of being slave women. They were no easy to survive in the crucial time period. The third woman is the master’s wife who had taught Douglass study for a while. She stopped to teach Douglass after the disagreement of her husband. In Douglass’s mind, the evil and bad always were the men. For women, he keeped his respect and felt unfortunate for them .