Benjamin Crous

‘Entirely free and at liberty to engage their services as they may think fit’? Recaptured African Adjudication and Freedom at the Cape Colony, 1806–1834, by Benjamin Crous doi.org/10.1080/030570… @BenjaminCrous @Stell_History #slavetrade #CapeColony

New article in Slavery & Abolition. This is part of a great special issue on 'Resistance to Slavery in Africa: Past and Present. Many thanks to the editors Marie Rodet, Lotte Pelckmans, Esteban Salas and Wayne Dooling for their hard work in putting this collection together.

Full article: Recaptured Africans at the Cape Colony: Resistance and Freedom, 1823–1827 #abstract" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Excited to share my latest publication on women and artisanal gold mining in Zimbabwe. Special thanks to my PhD supervisor @WildPasts_ and @geraldinsibanda and @ale_decola for putting together the special issue on Reframing African Monetary History. journals.ufs.ac.za/index.php/jch/…

In Luanda for the launch of this edited volume on #Angola after Dos Santos, in Portuguese & English with contributions by Angolan & foreign scholars. Both versions in the link. My chapter is on the politics of public memory 50 years after independence. cmi.no/publications/9…

On behalf of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences students and staff, particularly 2024 first year students who nominated our esteemed academics Prof Manfred Spocter (Geography& Environmental Studies),  Prof Sandra Swart (History) and Mr Ryan van der Poll (Psychology).

Congratulations! 🎉🎉🎉

Winner of the Southern African Historical Society's Student Essay Prize 2024! Congratulations, Benjamin Crous!! @BenjaminCrous @Stell_History #capecolony #children #abolition doi.org/10.1080/025824…

@SUNSocScLib @Stell_History Thank you! @SUNSocScLib

Delighted to have my first article published online in the South African Historical Journal.

Adult Children of Bondage: Recaptured African Childhoods and Labour at the Cape Colony, 1807–1834: South African Historical Journal: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Finally, the red gown!! The last degree, but the work is far from over. A huge thank you to my supervisors @JohanFourieZA and @Edkerby for their support, mentorship and belief in my work. Not forgetting my @LEAP_SU community. Now let’s turn knowledge into impact!

📢 LEAPer @KarlJBergemann published in Slavery & Abolition. Karl Bergemann (2025) Flights of Opportunity: An Investigation of Runaway Assimilation and Employment Opportunity in the Cape Colony, 1830–1842, Slavery & Abolition, DOI: 10.1080/0144039X.2025.2463079

Happy to share our latest co-authored article!, “Pluralizing archives for histories of extraction in Africa.” Click the link to read, cambridge.org/core/journals/… @IvaPesa

The latest issue of the South African Historical Journal is finally online. Available on the link below, the issue features a wide range of articles that reflect the high-quality scholarship on South Africa and the southern African region that historians continue to generate. tandfonline.com/toc/rshj20/75/3 The focus of these articles range from the rural politics of South Africa’s transition to democracy and the history of boxing in Cape Town to the approximately 5000 German men who were interned as ‘enemy aliens’ in South Africa during the Second World War. In the wake of the devastating fire that destroyed the Jagger Library at the University of Cape Town in April 2021, it is perhaps appropriate that the issue carries an article that provides an overview of digital archival projects and online databases developed by scholars and archival practitioners in South Africa since the early 1990s. Some observers often wonder how the Ian Smith regime in then Southern Rhodesia managed to survive the onslaught of sanctions imposed by the United Nations and Britain following its Unilateral Declaration of Independence in 1965. This issue contains the award-winning article from @Drpeteruledi who shows how the insurance industry served as a vehicle for economic survival... tandfonline.com/toc/rshj20/75/3

Now trending, our recent article '"A Necessary Evil?': (Southern) Rhodesia’s Diplomatic and Economic Relations with Zambia, 1963 to 1973' by Teverayi Muguti @TeveWekwaMuguti & Sandra Swart @WildPasts_ tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Watch the new @LEAP_SU (The Laboratory for the Economics of Africa’s Past) docushort on how the study of economic history benefit people today and generations to come: youtube.com/watch?v=bLRYrC…

𝗔𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗻𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 | 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰 𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗯𝗼𝘀𝗰𝗵 𝗨𝗻𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗜𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗘𝘅𝗰𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗔𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱𝘀. Congratulations to the awardees in the DVC top research output award category!

𝗔𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗻𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 | 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰 𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗯𝗼𝘀𝗰𝗵 𝗨𝗻𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗜𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗘𝘅𝗰𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗔𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱𝘀. Congratulations to the awardees in the DVC Interdisciplinary / Group award category!

@munashechideya @JohanFourieZA @Edkerby @LEAP_SU Congratulations 👏

Yesterday, I successfully defended my PhD thesis! Huge thanks to my supervisors @JohanFourieZA and @Edkerby, committee, colleagues @LEAP_SU, friends, and family for their support. What a great learning experience – I wouldn't trade it for anything. Excited for what lies ahead.