How to think about childhood -- How to think about children's rights -- Boys in slavery and servitude : Frederick Douglass -- Girls at the intersection of age, race and gender : Dred Scott's daughters -- Growing up in state custody : "Tony" and "John G." -- printer's apprentice : Ben Franklin and youth speech -- Youth in the civil rights movement : John Lewis and Sheyanne Webb -- Old maids and little women : Louisa Alcott and William Cather -- Breaking the prison of disability : Helen Keller and the children of "Greenhaven" -- Hide and survive : Anne Frank and "Liu" -- Children at work : newsboys, entrepreneurs, and "Evelyn" -- Telling the scariest secrets: Maya Angelou and "Jeannie" -- Age and the idea of innocence : "Amal" and Lionel Tate.