At the present times we have laws similar to those of the Ten Commandments such as:
You shall not kill
You shall not Steal
You shall not bear witness against your neighbor
You shall not commit adultery
Georgia had to join the United States again after the civil war.
It influenced the creation of the United States Declaration of Independence (1776) and the United States Bill of Rights (1789).
The country in the Americas who first adopted slavery and was one of the last to abolish it is Brazil. Actually, Brazil was the last country to abolish slavery in Western world, in 1888. By that time, 40% of the total number of slaves brought to the Americas had been imported from Africa to Brazil. A forced migration of Africans to Brazil for slavery took place during a period of history known as Atlantic slave trade to Brazil. Slavery there began long before the establishment of first Portuguese settlement in 1532.