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 was a presidential proclamation and executive order issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863. In a single stroke, it changed the federal legal status of more than 3 million enslaved persons in the designated areas of the South from slave to free..
The emancipation proclamation was used by Lincoln as an instrument of war. He raised his military to invade the South to put down what he called a rebellion, which in reality â¦was a lawful War of Independence. The war was not about slavery, Lincoln did not care about slaves, by his own admission in his writings.