"From Our Nig; or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black..." by Harriet E. Wilson and "From Iola Leroy, or Shadows Uplifted " by Frances E.W. Harper " and " From A Voice From the South: By a Black Woman of the South " by Anna Julia Cooper all use language to manipulate society into thinking about a new concept: women are equal to men. These women understand that the times are far from propitious and challenge the feminine cult of domesticity, since women could never obtain social or economic rights equal to those of men. African American women are familiar with the difficulties of men white men who sexually abuse them and never have the opportunity to demonstrate that they are capable of equal, if not greater, success if society deems it acceptable. Wilson, Harper and Cooper use emotion, ethics, ignorance and logic: historical and political in their writings to guide people to think about what women have suffered in order to meet society's standards of what idealistic women should be and change what women aspire to equality. First, Wilson's "From Our Nig; or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black..." elicits emotions of loneliness because Mag is not accepted by her family or society as a social equal. Instead of living happily, Mag is forced to exist and question discrimination when she is "deprived of parental guardianship and separated from her relatives" (Wilson 85) at an early age. African American women have mixed emotions of living a happy and meaningful life versus existence that arise when Mag's parents cannot provide for her because she was born from rape by a white slave owner, or the slave parents hope that Mag can lead a better life away from slavery. Then, the society that Mag is unprepared for... at the center of the paper... its readers remember what the Republicans have done for them. Works Cited Cooper, Anna Julia. “From a Voice from the South: From a Southern Black Woman.” 1892. The Prentice Hall Anthology of African-American Literature. Ed. Sharon L. Jones and Rochelle Smith. Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall, 1999. 146-153. Print.Harper, Frances W. “From Iola Leroy, or Shadows Uplifted.” 1892. The Prentice Hall Anthology of African-American Literature. Ed. Sharon L. Jones and Rochelle Smith. Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall, 1999. 88-94. Print.Wilson, Harriet E. "From our Nig; or, Sketches from the life of a free black, in a two-story White House, in the North: to show that the shadows of slavery fall there too." 1859. The Prentice Hall Anthology of Afro-American Literature. Ed. Sharon L. Jones and Rochelle Smith. Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall, 1999. 85-88. Press.