Although the international slave trade was outlawed in 1808, slavery existed for many years afterward. There were various anti-slavery and abolitionist movements throughout the 1800s, such as the American Colonization Society and the American Antislavery Society. Because there were so many divergent opinions on this topic, movements toward the abolition of slavery caused a wave of sectionalism throughout the country. Before 1830, the movements were more sober and calmer in their beliefs; In contrast, after the 1830s, the anti-slavery and abolitionist movement evolved into a more violent and harsh conflict of interests between the constituents and non-constituents of slavery. In the late 1800s, the abolitionist movement was characterized by calm and gentle moral disapproval. They focused more on getting slaves out of the country and back to their home country. An organization was created to fund these trips called the American Colonization Society, the only problem was that most of the slaves were 3 or 4 generations away from the original slave who came from Africa or the Caribbean....