African Americans have always been treated like animals by white people. It was as if they didn't even consider them human beings. In the 1800s, black people were fed up with the way they were being treated and decided it was time to make a change. Thus, in the early years of the 19th century, black people created an organized anti-slavery movement. Unfortunately, this movement did not last long and was not very effective either. But after 1830 a new important person appeared and his name was William Lloyd Garrison. He started an abolitionist movement that truly changed the nation as a whole. The movement occurring before the 1830s had no real effect on the nation as a whole. The concept focused on colonization. They tried to get freed African Americans to settle in Africa or the Caribbean. They created the American Colonization Society, which challenged slavery without questioning the ownership of slave owners. This movement was not successful because, unlike the one that happened later, instead of trying to keep all African Americans together, they tried to separate them, which did not help the cause of ending slavery. It just helped him. This was the difference between the initial opposition to slavery and the later movement. In 1831, Garrison launched his weekly newspaper, the Liberator. This journal explained how people viewed slavery and how they viewed it in the wrong way. He argued that people should not view slavery as a harmful influence on white society, but rather how it made African Americans look bad. He also talked about the proponents of colonization, who were the ones who started an anti-slavery movement in the early 19th century, and how they weren't really against slavery. They were really trying to... middle of paper ... it made sure to see that state officials were not helping to catch and bring back runaway slaves. Although the movement was beneficial to the slaves, this movement truly divided the nation. Some believed that things should be approached in a peaceful and calm manner, while others believed that violence and rioting was the way to go. There was also an even greater division between freed African American slaves and whites. As you can see, the abolitionist movement of the 1830s was far more successful than that of the early 1800s. The movement of the 1830s changed the nation as a whole by dividing the country between abolitionists and anti-abolitionists. This also caused the abolitionism of slavery to become an important phenomenon. But the Garrison's cause and the men and women who remained alive constantly reminded us of how slavery divided America. Works Cited AMH 2010 brinkley