Historical Figures Born in 1818

Abolitionist · 1818 – 1895

Frederick Douglass was an American abolitionist, orator and writer who escaped slavery to become the most powerful voice of the antislavery movement and one of the foremost advocates for equality and human rights in the 19th century.

• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
• Abolitionist oratory

Philosopher · 1818 – 1883

Karl Marx was a German philosopher, economist, and revolutionary whose theories of historical materialism and class struggle, set out in The Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital, became among the most influential and contested ideas in modern history.

• Historical materialism
• The Communist Manifesto