The James Bradley Monument tells the story of the man who became enslaved and eventually bought his way into freedom. The monument sits on the Kentucky side of the Ohio River facing the Queen City. This serves to the viewer as another symbolic representation of the line between freedom and enslavement for Africans/ African Americans escaping to the north as the Ohio River served as the physical boundary between the two realities. At least that’s what the plaque would like you to believe as slave catchers were often found in Cincinnati and even farther North searching for “escaped” African Americans.