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..
Report Abuse. The Emancipation Proclamation freed the slaves in the Confederate states not the slaves outside the Confederate states. This the rebellious South saw as hypocrisy. The 13th amendment freed all the slaves.