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About Blood, Justice & The Coley Brothers

In the sweltering summer of 1892, a brutal murder in rural North Carolina shocked the region and ignited a fierce quest for justice. When a Jewish peddler was found dead in the woods of Nash County, suspicion soon turned toward two local brothers-Thomas and Calvin Coley, young farmers with hard lives and darker secrets. What followed was a trial that gripped two counties, revealing not only the chilling details of the crime but also the deep undercurrents of prejudice, poverty, and desperation in the post-Reconstruction South. Now, over a century later, their distant cousin, Henry D Parrish Jr, unearths the tangled history of his own bloodline-bringing to light the social, racial, and personal forces that led to an infamous crime. Blood, Justice & The Coley Brothers is a gripping narrative of family, violence, and how one reconciles their family's murderous past.

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