Africa

South Africa

Associate Professor

University of Johannesburg

ggroenewald@uj.ac.za

Department of Historical Studies
University of Johannesburg
PO Box 524
Auckland Park
2006
South Africa

(tel) +27 11 559 3294
(fax) +27 11 559 2617

South Africa

BA (Hons), MA, PhD (University of Cape Town)

Indian Ocean slavery, particularly the Cape of Good Hope, 1652-1795
Social, cultural and economic history of early modern Cape Town
History of alcohol at the Cape of Good Hope
Origins and early history of the Afrikaans language

Pre-Industrial South Africa
Indian Ocean history
Atlantic Ocean history
Comparative slavery
Gender and family history

(with Nigel Worden) Trials of Slavery: Selected documents concerning slaves from the criminal records of the Council of Justice at the Cape of Good Hope, 1705-1794 (Cape Town: Van Riebeeck Society, 2005).
(with Laura J. Mitchell) The Pre-Industrial Cape in the Twenty-First Century (Special edition of the South African Historical Journal Vol. 62 No. 3, September 2010).
‘Entrepreneurs and the making of a free burgher society’, in Nigel Worden (ed.), Cape Town between East and West: Social Identities in a Dutch Colonial Town (Johannesburg: Jacana & Hilversum: Verloren, 2012; Athens OH: Ohio University Press, 2014), pp. 45-64.
‘On not spreading the word: Ministers of religion and written culture at the Cape of Good Hope in the 18th century’, in Adrien Delmas & Nigel Penn (eds), Written Culture in a Colonial Context: Africa and the Americas, 1500-1900 (Cape Town: UCT Press, 2011 and Leiden: Brill, 2012), pp. 302-323.
‘“More comfort, better prosperity, and greater advantage”: Free burghers, alcohol retail and the VOC authorities at the Cape of Good Hope, 1652-1680’, Historia 57, 1 (2012), pp. 1-21.
‘A class apart: Symbolic capital, consumption and identity among the alcohol entrepreneurs of Cape Town, 1680-1795’, South African Journal of Cultural History 26, 1 (2012), pp. 14-32.
‘Slaves and free blacks in VOC Cape Town, 1652-1795’, History Compass 8, 9 (2010), pp. 964-983.
‘Panaij van Boegies: Slave – bandiet – caffer’, in: Robert Shell (ed.), From Diaspora to Diorama: The Slave Lodge in Cape Town, 1658 to 1828 (Cape Town: Ancestry24, 2006; 2nd ed., 2009), pp. 595-614.
‘An early modern entrepreneur: Hendrik Oostwald Eksteen and the creation of wealth in Cape Town, 1702-1741’, Kronos: Southern African Histories 35 (2009), pp. 6-31.
‘Een spoorloos vrouwspersoon: Unmarried mothers, moral regulation and the church at the Cape of Good Hope, circa 1652-1795’, Historia 51, 2 (2008), pp. 5-32.
‘A mother makes no @#!*% : Family law, sexual relations and illegitimacy in Dutch colonial Cape Town, c. 1652-1795’, African Historical Review 39, 2 (2007), pp. 58-90.
‘Een dienstig inwoonder: Entrepreneurs, social capital and identity in Cape Town, c. 1720-1750’, South African Historical Journal 59 (2007), pp. 126-152.
‘To Leibniz, from Dorha: A Khoi prayer in the Republic of Letters’, Itinerario: International Journal on the History of European Expansion and Global Interaction 28, 1 (2004), pp. 29-48.

South Africa, Cape of Good Hope, Indian Ocean World, slavery, urban history, early modern history