The Redemption of Freetown Author:Charles M. Sheldon Charles M. Sheldon was involved in the successful program to improve the lot of the poor folks living in the Tennesseetown section of Topeka Kansas in the latter part of the 19th century. Unlike today's war on poverty the program was a success. — The Redemption of Freetown is the fictionalized account of how the Freetown section of the city of M... more »erton was transformed from a dangerous slum where the residents had no hope to a prosperous and well regarded section of town over the course of fifteen years. The story is fiction, but it is based on fact and shows how it is possible to overcome poverty and degradation. Not by giving of money, but by giving of self.« less