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.
why did Lincoln issue the Emancipation Proclamation. African Americans in the North celebrated, Britain & France refused to recognize the Confederacy as a nation, freed slaves and blacks were recruited as Union soldiers, 13th Amendment was passed that abolished slavery everywhere in US. what were the effects of the Emancipation Proclamation.