The United States of America was a free country to all its citizens if they had white skin. Unfortunately for African Americans who were forced into slavery, there seemed to be no way out of the predicament they found themselves in. In the first decades of the 19th century, there was a movement called the antislavery movement, and the slaves had some reason to want to live again. Later there would be another movement in the 1830s known as the abolitionist movement, led by two legendary Americans William Lloyd Garrison and Fredrick Douglas. Both movements were monumental for the country in progressing and would prove vital to the emancipation of slaves. With both movements underway and the push to end slavery, the idea of ​​ending slavery in America would be now or never. The anti-slavery movement had begun in the early 1800s and would continue for many decades until it finished its task of ending slavery in the United States. This movement had helped keep slavery out of the North and stopped the international slave trade in 1808. The great antislavery leader William Wilberforce from Great Britain had been a major figure in ending slavery and had helped to do so in the British Empire. This proved to the world that if a dominant country like Great Britain could end slavery, it would be possible for all other nations, including the land of the free. This movement didn't really take off until the 1830s; due to the fact that many of its members are silent and do not truly engage in the movement. During the antislavery movement, members of the American Colonization Society attempted to repatriate kidnapped Africans, even though they had been removed for three or four generations. This was done… midway through the paper… to make the country understand that slavery was not acceptable and needed to be eliminated immediately. The abolitionist movement clearly had the greatest impact on the nation as a whole. In the early 1800s the United States was in turmoil due to many existing problems, one of which was slavery. Slavery was clearly keeping Americans from progressing as a country, and there were some people who had seen and heard enough about slavery. The anti-slavery movement would begin the line of movements to end slavery and pave the way for slaves to get their stolen freedom back. The abolitionist movement would produce great Americans including William Lloyd Garrison and Fredrick Douglas, and take America to a place they had never known before. A truly free America was on the verge of becoming a reality for blacks and whites throughout the United States of America.