The status of the slave predetermined the conditions of slave life. During colonial times slaves and indentured slaves had more freedom than African American slaves later in history. But, even those types of slaves received the lowest type of living conditions and treatment. Slaves were condemned to disadvantages of the law. Slaves could not participate in wage earning trade or labor they were basically denied rights to their own property. The doctrine of authoritarianism guided much of the Southern rationale for slavery. As a public look of humanitarian ideals taken both the American Revolution and the Great Awakening, it spread Christianity everywhere, Southern plantation owners defined slavery not as an institution of instinctive force,
