"Life and Bloody Career of the Executed Criminal, James Copeland, the Great Southern Land Pirate" by J. R. S. Pitts is a late 1800s non-fiction record that lays bare the life of James Copeland, a famous criminal ringleader whose horrible actions spread fear across the Gulf States. Through Copeland's final admissions, the book shows his progression into crime and punishment given his beginnings in theft encouraged by family and friends as well as the misdeeds that led to his grisly end. Horse theft and the stealing of enslaved people are also included. This sets the stage for an examination of the corrupt behavior of the time.
Life and bloody career of the executed criminal, James Copeland, the great Southern land pirate
By J. R. S. (James Robert Soda) Pitts
A notorious criminal confesses his bloody path of theft, enslavement, and murder just before facing the hangman's noose.
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