In the mid-eighteenth century, enslaved Africans, enslaved people of African descent, and free people of African descent in the ranching and agricultural community of St. Ann, Jamaica were more than likely treated by the Scottish doctor Alexander Johnston. The stories of enslaved and free Black people’s encounters with Johnston, the power dynamics therein, and Black people’s modes of kinship and self-reliance despite the intensification of British colonial authority are the subject of the book project, Remedies and Relations. This book will address enslaved and free people of African descent’s tenacious, pragmatic, and rebellious practices of accessing medical treatment and healing for themselves and their children, the gendered formal and informal avenues of enslaved and free people’s medical training, and the diverse power dynamics that unfolded in the context of Johnston’s medical practice. Remedies and Relations is concerned with how colonial medicine impacted bodies, kinship, the internal slave trade, and wealth distribution in mid-eighteenth-century St. Ann, Jamaica. Finally, this project marks a scalar transition from Dr. Mitchell's first book, a broad study of epidemics and public health in the multi-imperial transatlantic slave trade, to a microhistory of one mixed-status Black community, inviting methodological questions about the practice of history.