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Africatown: History, Regions & Measurement

Africatown, also known as AfricaTown USA and Plateau, is a historic community located three miles (5 km) north of downtown Mobile, Alabama. It was formed by a group of 32 West Africans, who in 1860 were bought and transported against their will in the last known illegal shipment of slaves to the United States. The Atlantic slave trade had been banned…

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Africatown topic overview

The analysis highlights History, Regions and Measurement as prominent areas in the source structure around Africatown.

Related topics
69
Source areas
4
Connected nodes
73
Extracted relationships
290
Concept neighborhoods
29
Bridge connections
73

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

History · 36 topics
Overview · 15 topics
Representation in other media · 14 topics
Africatown Historic District · 4 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Location
Roughly bounded by Jakes Ln., Paper Mill & Warren Rds., Chin & Railroad Sts., in Mobile, Alabama
Added to NRHP
December 4, 2012
NRHP reference No.
12000990

Explore all related topics Closing gaps

Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.

Overview

History

Africatown Historic District

Representation in other media

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How Africatown connects Entity context

The extracted context around Africatown shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Africatown → Africa, African-American, Africans, Africatown's, Alabama, Alabama Historical Association, Alabama Historical Commission, Amistad Press, April, Art, Barracoon, BBC Radio, Beth Duke, Black, Black Cargo, Black Heritage, Black Heritage Council, Captain Timothy Meaher, Captain William Foster's, Chair Another extracted example is Africatown → Africa, Alabama, Alain Locke Collection, America, America's Last Slave Ship, Amistad, An Alabama Shipwreck Reveals, Aspiotes, Barracoon, Ben, Black Cargo, Community, Conn, Created, Diouf, Dreams, Emma Langdon, Extraordinary Reckoning, February, George. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Africatown

Top relations

related to Representation in other media · 83
Africatown → Africa, African-American, Africans, Africatown's, Alabama, Alabama Historical Association, Alabama Historical Commission, Amistad Press, April, Art, Barracoon, BBC Radio, Beth Duke, Black, Black Cargo, Black Heritage, Black Heritage Council, Captain Timothy Meaher, Captain William Foster's, Chair
related to Further reading · 68
Africatown → Africa, Alabama, Alain Locke Collection, America, America's Last Slave Ship, Amistad, An Alabama Shipwreck Reveals, Aspiotes, Barracoon, Ben, Black Cargo, Community, Conn, Created, Diouf, Dreams, Emma Langdon, Extraordinary Reckoning, February, George
related to External links · 46
Africatown → Africa, AL, Alabama, Alabama Historians Say The, Archived, Bridge, Capt, Clotilda, CollectionsLawrence Specker, CT, December, Diouf, Encyclopedia, Gulf, Has Been Found, Ingber, January, Joe Womack, Journal, July
related to Post-Civil War to World War II · 28
Africatown → Accounts, Africans, After, Among, Charles Lewis, Charlie Poteet, Chickasabogag Creek, Civil War, Clotilda, Cudjoe Kazoola Lewis, Cudjoe Lewis, Emma Langdon Roche, He, Jaba, Jabez, Kazoola, Kossola, Maggie, Meaher, Meaher's
related to Discovery of the wreck of the Clotilda · 19
Africatown → Alabama Historical Commission, Ben Raines, Clotilda, In January, Joe Turner, Marine Sciences, Mile Island, Mobile River, Monty Graham, On April, On March, On May, One, Raines, Search Inc, Southern Mississippi, The, Underwater Works Dive Shop, University
related to Africatown Historic District · 17
Africatown → Africatown Community Mobilization Project, Africatown Historic District, AfricaTown Mobilization Project, Alabama's, Cochrane-Africatown USA Bridge, Congress, In, Its, Library, Local Legacy Project, Materials, Mobile's, Most, Part, Representative Sonny Callahan, United States, USA
related to Post-World War II changes · 17
Africatown → Afro-American Life, Amoco Foundation, Association, Bienville Square, City, History, In, It, Lewis, Mobile, Plateau, Statue, Study, The Cudjo Lewis Memorial, Union Missionary Baptist Church, Up, World War II
related to 2017 pollution lawsuit · 8
Africatown → Given, In, International Paper, IP, IP's, Meaher Jr, Residents, The
Added to NRHP · 1
Africatown → December 4, 2012
Coordinates · 1
Africatown → .mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-pars…

Important terminology

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Important terminology

clotilda mobile alabama community historic slaves slave known also last people district ship lewis history africans later published century west

Africatown relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 290 structured relationships around Africatown. Examples in this analysis include Africatown → Added to NRHP → December 4, 2012 and Africatown → Coordinates → .mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-pars…. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
AfricatownAdded to NRHPDecember 4, 20121.00infobox
AfricatownCoordinates.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-pars…1.00infobox
AfricatownLocationRoughly bounded by Jakes Ln., Paper Mill & Warren Rds., Chin & Railroad Sts., in Mobile, Alabama1.00infobox
AfricatownNRHP reference No.120009901.00infobox
Africatownrelated to 2017 pollution lawsuitGiven0.60section
Africatownrelated to 2017 pollution lawsuitMeaher Jr0.60section
Africatownrelated to 2017 pollution lawsuitResidents0.60section
Africatownrelated to 2017 pollution lawsuitIn0.60section
Africatownrelated to 2017 pollution lawsuitInternational Paper0.60section
Africatownrelated to 2017 pollution lawsuitIP0.60section
Africatownrelated to 2017 pollution lawsuitThe0.60section
Africatownrelated to 2017 pollution lawsuitIP's0.60section

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around Africatown bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Alabama, Historic and District. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • Africatown
    • Alabama
    • Historic
    • District
    • Community
    • Mobile
    • Clotilda
    • Founded
    • Slave
    • Book
    • National
    • Ship
    • Paper
  • africatown
    • Alabama
    • Historic
    • District
    • Community
    • Mobile
    • Clotilda
    • Founded
    • Slave
    • Book
    • National
    • Ship
    • Paper
  • mobile, alabama
    • History
    • Mobile
    • Slaves
    • Clotilda
    • National
    • Slave
    • Story
    • Last
    • African
    • Book
    • Sold
    • Africa
  • clotilda
    • Ship
    • Slave
    • Last
    • Mobile
    • Slaves
    • Descendants
    • People
    • Redoshi
    • Foster
    • Sold
    • West
    • Africa
  • dallas county, alabama
    • History
    • Mobile
    • National
    • Slave
    • Story
    • Last
    • Clotilda
    • African
    • Book
    • Sold
    • Africa
    • Published
  • alabama pigtoe
    • History
    • Mobile
    • National
    • Slave
    • Story
    • Last
    • Clotilda
    • African
    • Book
    • Sold
    • Africa
    • Published
  • africatown historic district
    • District
    • Historic
    • National
    • Alabama
    • Community
    • Mobile
    • Paper
    • Clotilda
    • Founded
    • Slave
    • Book
    • Ship
  • west africans
    • African
    • Africans
    • West
    • Africa
    • Also
    • Lewis
    • Meaher
    • Clotilda
    • Last
    • Slaves
    • Ship
    • Slave

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Africatown, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Africatown with History. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
AfricatownHistory · splits 37 ⟂ 37
AfricatownOverview · splits 58 ⟂ 16
AfricatownRepresentation in other media · splits 59 ⟂ 15
AfricatownAfricatown Historic District · splits 69 ⟂ 5

Map overview Semantic statistics

Africatown

Nodes74
Edges73
Triples290
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.027027
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Africatown to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as History, Regions & Measurement, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Africatown · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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