In the 19th century, slavery was a very controversial issue with a variety of views and beliefs on what measures should be taken to end it. In the early 1800s the antislavery approach was very different from that which continued after 1830. Antislavery began with the goal of recolonizing African American slaves in their homelands, but slowly lost its effectiveness and evolved into the movement abolitionist contributed to by various respectable individuals who worked for the abolition of slavery; this subsequently sparked a powerful and violent war against slavery that effectively demonstrated that measures taken after 1830 had a much greater influence than those of the early 19th century. The launch of opposition to slavery in the first decade of the 19th century awakened an organized antislavery movement whose goal was to peacefully change the slave population in the South. This organization was known as the American Colonization Society. They proposed that slave owners free their slaves and that society reward them with money. They would move slaves to the Caribbean, to their homelands in Africa, or to new settlements often outside the country. The American Colonization Society was funded by various donors, charities, and legislative bodies. They were very well planned, however their efforts were only effective for a time due to the large amounts of funding needed to compensate slave owners and ship the freed slaves to their new settlements. There were too many slaves and it was certain that the plan would never reach the economic sufficiency to carry out their project, as well as the fact that the growing cotton industry in the Sou...... middle of paper... ...abolitionists, riots and undoubtedly a tendency towards the division of the nation. These opponents became radically fanatical and, in addition to arguing against slavery, they also raised arguments against the government. supported. They consistently maintained strong arguments even though they had anti-abolitionist elements that challenged their goals. This caused the nation to be at war internally. The nation was divided in beliefs, and in efforts to find stable ground, violence broke out. This thus demonstrates that the power the abolitionist movement had over the nation after 1830 was far greater than the failed attempts at colonization in the early 1800s. Works Cited AMH 2010