Good Fortune by Noni Carter

In this book for older readers, Ayanna Bahati is brutally kidnapped from her African village and shipped to America where she struggles to come to terms with her new life as a slave. Rising from the cotton fields to her master's house, Anna is threatened by the increasingly dangerous world of the plantation. Risking everything, she escapes and makes her way north to freedom and an education, but can she shed the chains of her harrowing past to live the life she has longed for?