What were Georgia laws concerning slavery before the US Civil War?

In 1793 the Georgia Assembly passed a law prohibiting the importation of slaves but it was ignored. In 1850 and 1860 more than two-thirds of all state legislators were slaveholders. So, even without the cooperation of nonslaveholding white male voters, Georgia slaveholders could dictate the state's political path.
The judicial system denied African Americans the legal rights enjoyed by white Americans. Georgia law supported slavery in that the state restricted the right of slaveholders to free individual slaves. Other statutes made the circulation of abolitionist material a capital offense and outlawed slave literacy and unsupervised assembly. Although the law technically prohibited whites from abusing or killing slaves, it was extremely rare for whites to be prosecuted and convicted for these crimes.
The legal prohibition against slave testimony against whites denied slaves the ability to provide evidence of their victimization.