Last month I was puzzled by a Juneteenth jousting tournament in Houston in 1871. This blog post by Daniel R. Weinfeld on Black Ring Tournaments in Reconstruction suggests that it was a broader phenomenon. It also introduced me to Texas artist Merritt Mauzey and his lithograph Tournament Practice.


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