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Essays from leading writers on arts, history, philosophy, science, religion and beyond.

Leading writers on arts, history, philosophy, science, religion and beyond, themed across a week - insight, opinion and intellectual surprise.

The Essay: A Bard's Eye View of Wales: Devils

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Twm Morys tells the story of Jack Ystumllyn, an African man in North Wales in the 1770s

Poet and musician Twm Morys looks into the experiences of Jack Ystumllyn in North Wales in the 1770s, who overcame prejudice to become an extremely popular and respectable man

The history of the Welsh people, from the year six hundred to the present, can be traced through poetry - there has not been one generation in that time in which poets haven't kept a record. In this series of Essays, poet and musician Twm Morys brings his personal perspective to five stories looking at aspects of the history of Wales over several centuries, following the fortunes of Welsh figures both eminent and ordinary.

In his fourth essay this week, Twm looks into the experiences of an African man in North Wales in the 1770s, and the stories the community told about how he came to be there. The only black man anyone had ever come across in Cricieth at that time, it seems Jack Ystumllyn may have been an escaped slave, who overcame prejudice to become an extremely popular and respectable man.

Producer: Megan Jones for BBC Wales

The Essay: A Bard's Eye View of Wales

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Twm Morys with a personal perspective on five stories centring on Welsh history.

Poet and musician Twm Morys brings his personal perspective to five stories looking at aspects of the history of Wales over several centuries.

Poet and musician Twm Morys brings his personal perspective to five stories looking at aspects of the history of Wales over several centuries, following the fortunes of Welsh figures both eminent and ordinary.

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