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.
Many people think that the Emancipation Proclamation resulted in the total abolition of slavery. While the Emancipation Proclamation did free some slaves, the 13th Amendment called for the total abolition of slavery. It was the primary piece of legislation that permanently ended the institution of slavery in the United States, and it was passed in 1865.