melanophobia

Fear, hate, or dislike of black people.

The sympathy of Maga with white oppressors of black men, has been shown in several recent articles, in which it classes negroes with monkeys and gorillas; as inferior to the whites as white men are to angels.—Vol. xci, p 4; and xcvii, 34, 152. This, and its unjust and bitter invectives against the anti-slavery party, as hypocrites and ultra-radicals,—xcix, 589, 590—are among the most melancholy instances of Melanophobia with which we are acquainted.

Modern commentators and preachers explain the first four verses of the first chapter as referring to the “Church’s love unto Christ” and the fifth verse as “the Church’s confession of her deformity.” Surely this illegitimate idea was hatched in a brain diseased with what Dr. Edward W[ilmot] Blyden calls “melanophobia.”[…]Edward W. Blyden, LL.D., writing from Liberia, says: “[…]The cure for American colorphobia, or more accurately, melanophobia is in the heart of Africa.”

Fear of ink.

This odious apparatus of pen and ink! Why cannot we hold intercourse together without this formidable machinery? I have a perfect melanophobia, and I go on like Coleridge, with his headache in bed, longing to write, yet always wanting the time for something else.

To most people suffering from too much pen the idea of homœopathic treatment is inexpressibly repulsive. They leave no address; they would, if it were possible, omit the cursed implement from their baggage altogether; they suffer from what might be, if it has not already been, called melanophobia—from a morbid horror and shuddering at the sight of ink.