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 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.