Although the international slave trade was prohibited in 1808, slavery remained in place 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 different opinions on this topic, movements toward the abolition of slavery caused a wave of sectionalism to grow across the nation. Before 1830 the movements were more moderate and calm about their beliefs; on the contrary, after 1830 the antislavery and abolitionist movement transformed into a more violent and harsh clash of interests between the constituents and non-constituents of slavery. During the late 1800s the abolitionist movement was characterized by a calm and gentle moral disapproval. They were more focused on getting slaves out of the country and back to their homelands. An organization was created to fund these voyages 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, so...