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..
However, the Emancipation Proclamation only freed slaves in the Confederate states, since Lincoln could only justify the Proclamation as a war measure intended to cripple the Confederacy. Sorry, that's incorrect. Answer: Only the states in rebellion (the Confederate states).