at where slavery was in use, it was part of a slave economy, and stopping slavery would impact the plantation owners' ability to keep their operations afloat and continue gaining wealth at the expense of the slaves. The film suggested that embedded in the conflict over slavery was an underlying additional conflict over religion. Wilberforce was a devout Christian, and much of the support that his initiative to abolish slavery received was on the part of other Christians. Thus, the slavery issue was in part a conflict in the minds of the people between God and Mammon, with Christians contending that it was not right to brutalize human beings for profit and the wealthy elite/plantation owners pretending that there was nothing wrong with the practice.
As the film demonstrated, there were a handful of women involved in the opposition movement also, and Levine notes that "anti-slavery activism would open their eyes to the inequalities under which women in Britain lived, prompting them to fight for women's rights as well.[5] Angela Woollacott points out that not only were gender identities, both male and female, a means of colonial governments' establishment of their legitimacy, but such governments were also fraught with interracial sexuality, which she describes as "a messy and blurred liminal area in which gender relations were shaped in the most intimate and telling ways-across racial bound
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