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.
The Declaration of Independence had nothing to do with freeing any slaves. You are probably thinking of the Emancipation Proclamation in which Lincoln ordered that slaves beâ¦ freed in any Confederate state that did not return to the Union by January 1, 1863. The Proclamation did not cover any slaves in Union states.