This study is about Racial discrimination during period of slavery in America in 1853 that portrayed in 12 Years a Slave movie. The purpose of the study is to report and describe the racial discrimination and find the forms of racial discrimination that the main character has been experienced, and more specifically the Discrimination, Segregation, and Prejudices.
In analysing the study, descriptive qualitative method was used. 12 Years a Slave movie is the primary data in this study. Whereas in collecting the data, this study used the secondary data were taken from the journal, book, essay, and articles related to the theory of Racial Discrimination, Segregation, and Prejudices.
After analysing the data, the writer found out about the condition of the main character. Solomon Northup as the main character is a free black man, the color of his skin is the reason he become a slave. The main character condition when he became a slave and how he gets out of it. The writer also founds forms of racism experienced by the main character that are Racial Discrimination, Segregation, and Prejudices. From these results all researcher can see how the social conditions of the slave, white people in America at that time, specifically how acts of racism are rampant which resulted in a social system that violates human rights rules called slavery.
Keyword: racial discrimination, segregation, and prejudices.