Bethany Veney (c. 1812–1815 – November 16, 1915), born into slavery on a farm near Luray, Virginia as Bethany Johnson, whose autobiography, Aunt Betty's Story: The Narrative of Bethany Veney, A Slave Woman was published in 1889. She married twice, first to an enslaved man, Jerry Fickland, with whom she had a daughter, Charlotte. He was sold away from her and she was later married to Frank Veney, a free black man. She was sold on an auction block to her employer, George J. Adams. He brought her to Providence, Rhode Island followed by Worcester, Massachusetts. After the Civil War, Veney made four trips to Virginia to move her daughter and her family and 16 additional family members north to New England.