Throughout history, and even today, people will have their own positions on certain issues. At the beginning of the 19th century, a delirious subject was that of slavery. Along with the arrival of the first Africans in America came controversy over whether it was right to use and abuse one's fellow human beings simply because of the color of their skin. The period of opposition to slavery can be broken down into two periods, a period of anti-slavery movements prior to 1830 and a period of abolitionist movements from the 1830s until the end of the Civil War. Despite the efforts of many during the anti-slavery era, the movement simply did not generate as great an impact as that of the abolitionist movement. In the long run, the anti-slavery movement only contributed to the elimination of most slaves in the North, where slaves were not even really needed, and to the colonization of a few southern slaves in d other regions outside the country, as the abolitionist movement led to a war that resulted in the freeing of millions of slaves, a truly revolutionary event in American history. The anti-slavery period is easily categorized as nothing big at all, rather just quiet, meek people who expressed their disapproval in practice and did not engage in many activities to do something about the situation . In the North, they pleaded their case, saying slavery was an inhumane atrocity and should be outlawed. The North, not relying as much on the hard labor of slaves due to the reliance on skilled labor rather than labor requiring force, agreed with them and eliminated most of the slave force from the North. However, the South remained unresponsive to Northern movements toward a more racially egalitarian society. A "solution" in the middle of the document...... to changes in the economy, because now there was no longer cheap labor in the South, so agriculture became less profitable, this which led to more movements northward. Although efforts were made in antislavery movements before 1830, they lacked the dynamism and intensity to transform Americans' views and change the nation. Although they freed some slaves through the idea of ​​colonization, implemented by the American Colonization Society, and simple persuasion, it was not enough to rival the millions of slaves freed through victory of the Civil War and the establishment of the 13th Amendment thanks to the valiant efforts of abolitionists. The post-1830 abolitionists were the fathers of equality (when it comes to race) and truly left their mark on American history, unlike the anti-slavery activists before 1830..