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..
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.