"bloodymindedness 1690 (antedates OED2 1789)

[Joel S. Berson]

If any slave, by punishment from the owner for running away or other
offence, shall suffer in life or limb, no person shall be liable to
the law for the same; but if any one out of wilfulness, wantoness, or
bloody mindedness, shall kill a slave, he or she, upon due conviction
thereof, shall suffer three months imprisonment, without bail or
mainprize, and also pay the sum of fifty pounds to the owner of such slave.

The Statutes at Large of South Carolina: Edited, under Authority of
the Legislature, by David J. McCord (1840: Printed by A. S. Johnson), VII. 346.

Joel

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