We Slaves of Suriname. Anton de Kom

      1  1 TN: De Kom uses the Dutch-language Surinamese names of the yellow lapacho (“groenhart,” literally “greenheart”) and the wacapou (“bruinhart,” literally “brownheart”); these have been translated literally to draw attention to the color words and the recurrence of “heart.”

      2  2 TN: In Dutch, the two terms “het Westen” and “de West,” both of which can be translated as “the West,” have contrasting meanings. Here, De Kom uses “het Westen” to refer to “the West” in a traditional European cultural sense, meaning Europe and perhaps also North America. The western colonies of the Netherlands, in the Caribbean region, were referred to as “de West.”