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.
Some insisted that the Emancipation Proclamation had achieved littleâthat, after all, it ordered slaves freed only in those states where Lincoln had no authority to do so, leaving slavery frustratingly unÂ­touched in a wide swath of geography over which he presided as chief magistrate.