Salamishah Tillet’s “How ‘The Birth of a Nation’ Silences Black Women,” an editorial from the New York Times about the new film Birth of a Nation, helps us see the role of women, particularly women of color, in Frederick Douglass’s autobiography, “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass.” Right from the beginning of the autobiography, Douglass tells us he believes his father is his master and that he never saw his mother, who was a slave, more than four or five times in his lifetime. Women slaves played a role of just producing more property for the slaveowners.“The children of slave women shall in all cases follow the condition of their mothers; and this is done too obviously to administer to their own lusts, and make a gratification of their wicked desires profitable as well as pleasurable” (3). He explains that slaveowners often rape and impregnate female slaves for profit as it increases their number of slaves. Douglass also recalls waking up in the middle of the night to the loud shrieks of his Aunt Hester, who was violently whipped by the master. She would be “tie(d) up to a joist, and whip(ped) upon her naked back till she was literally covered with blood” (5) if she ever disobeyed his orders or absent when the master desired her company. From Douglass’s narrative, we can see that women slaves had no voice and was raped and whipped whenever the master desired. Similarly, in Tillet’s editorial, women are “doubly marginalized.” “First, they are silenced by the violations against their bodies and then sidelined to the plot of Turner’s realization of his own manhood in the horror of slavery.” In Mr. Parker’s film, a slave named Esther who was raped played a silent role, communicating her emotions with just her facial expressions. This is a powerful statement as women slaves, like Douglass mentions in his narrative, did not have a voice.