1 Place the sweet potatoes on a rimmed baking sheet lined with foil. 2  Bake until tender, about 45 minutes. 3  Make a slit in the top of each sweet potato. 4  Top with 1 tablespoon of butter and season with the salt and pepper.
The Emancipation Proclamation also allowed for the enrollment of freed slaves into the United States military. During the war nearly 200,000 blacks, most of them ex-slaves, joined the Union Army.
Exact Definition Edit. The Emancipation Proclamation (1863) was an executive order by Lincoln that proclaimed the of freedom of 3.1 million slaves under Confederate control. It did not free slaves in the Union border states, because that could anger them and prompt their secession.