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As coffee became popular, sugar became the sweetener of choice. Rodriguez, Junius P. Thousands of African Americans students would become teachers but were not hired to teach in Pittsburgh. Tobacco led to the importation of enslaved Africans to Virginia in the 17th century and the population of slaves grew from , to nearly one million during the 18th century. They could be roasted in ashes, baked, boiled, mashed, fried, or added to soups and stews. It is believed to have come to the Americas before Columbus. African American men on the home front would work to fortify the city against a pending Confederate invasion.