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5. The South refused Lincoln's offer and so after 100 days, on Jan. 1, 1863, Lincoln issued the definitive
Emancipation Proclamation. (See Reference Links/NARA/Emancipation Proclamation/Transcript.)
Analysis the document from:
a) its legal standing, what authority did he use?
b) what geographical areas where included and which excluded and why?
c) how did he address the slaves to be freed directly, what did he admonish them to do and not to do?