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.
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).