A Midnight Woman to the Bobby

What is the setting in the poem, A Midnight Woman to the Bobby?

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The speaker tells us plainly that this poem takes place "right 'way in 'panish Town" (12). Spanish Town was the first European settlement on the conquered island that settlers named Jamaica.

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A Midnight Woman to the Bobby