Journal Articles
‘Bondsmen: Slave Collateral in the 19th-Century Cape Colony’, Journal of Southern African Studies, 47.3 (2021):437-53.
Editorial with R. Ross, ‘The Emancipation of the enslaved in the Cape Colony: Historiography and Introduction’, Journal of Southern African Studies 47.3 (2021):405-16.
with J. Fourie, H. Heese and L. Martin, ‘When Cape Slavery Ended: Introducing a new slave emancipation dataset’ Explorations in Economic History 81 (2021).
‘Precarious Freedom: Manumission in eighteenth-century Colombo, Sri Lanka’ Journal of Social History 54.1 (2020):88-108.
‘Taking the Companies to Court: Wage litigation against the Dutch East and West India Companies in the High Court’ Tijdschift voor Geschiedenis 131.3 (2018):409-30.
with M. Fusaro et. al., ‘Entrepreneurs at sea: Trading practices, legal opportunities and early modern globalization.’ International Journal of Maritime History 28.4 (2016):774-86.
Book chapters
‘Connected Lives: Experiences of slavery in VOC Colombo.’ In Being a slave in the Indian Ocean world edited by A. Schrikker and N. Wickramasinghe (Leiden: Leiden University Press, 2020).
with C. Antunes, ‘Mediterranean and Atlantic Maritime Conflict Resolution: Critical Insights into Geographies of Conflict in the Early Modern Period.’ In Mediterranean and Atlantic Maritime Conflict Resolution edited by L. Sicking and A. Wijffels (Leiden: Brill, 2020).
with A. Schrikker, ‘Through the lens of slavery: Dutch Sri Lanka in the eighteenth century.’ In Sri Lanka at the Crossroads of History edited by Z. Biedermann and A. Strathern (London: University College London Press, 2017).
‘Conflict in Court: Suing the Dutch East and West India Companies.’ In Mechanisms of Global Empire edited by C. Antunes and A. Polónia (Porto: CITCEM/Edições Afrontamento, 2017).
‘Just Deserters: Runaway slaves from the VOC Cape, c. 1700-1800.’ In Desertion in the Early Modern World: A comparative history edited by M. van Rossum and J. Kamp (London: Bloomsbury, 2016).
Book reviews
A. Jaffer, ‘Lascars and Indian Ocean Seafaring, 1780-1860: Shipboard life, unrest and mutiny’ Tijdschrift voor Zeegeschiedenis 35:2 (2016):83-5.
Z. Biedemann, ‘The Portuguese in Sri Lanka and South India: Studies in the history of diplomacy, empire and trade, 1500-1600’ International Journal of Maritime History 27:2 (2015):348-9.
W. B. Stephens, ‘The Seventeenth Century Customs Service Surveyed: William Culliford’s investigation of the western ports, 1682-84’ The Mariner’s Mirror 100:1 (2014):96-7.