Bethany Veney

Biography

Bethany Veney (March 19, 1812 – November 16, 1915), was an American writer whose autobiography and slave narrative, Aunt Betty's Story: The Narrative of Bethany Veney, A Slave Woman, was published in 1889. Born into slavery on a farm near Luray, Virginia, as Bethany Johnson, she married twice. Her first husband was an enslaved man, Jerry Fickland, with whom she had a daughter, Charlotte.

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