Abstract :
Slavery is a serious problem and one of the phenomena that are
found in many countries since long time ago, especially in
America. Slavery is a work system with only a brief
interruptions to rest, and it takes up most of one?s time. 12
Years a Slave, a novel written by David Wilson, is one of very
interesting novels which reflects the slavery. It portrays how the
slavery works in America and the effort from the slaves to
escape from the slavery. This research is aimed to find out the
eidos of the characters in the novel and to find out the eidos of
the novel itself. Deconstruction is used to conduct the research.
The finding is that the Whites is the superior and the Blacks is
the inferior. In addition, it is also found that there is no exact
meaning in the text because text always produce various
meaning that can be different from one another.
Key words: Slavery, American Slavery History,
Deconstruction, Derrida, text meaning