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> That is not a debt to slave owners, that is a debt taken on to pay for the costs of abolishing slavery. This seems like a distinction without a difference.

• suzakus 1y ago
  The slave owners were paid lifetimes ago. The repayments are to the inheritors of the debt that was taken on to pay said slave owners.
• typewithrhythm 1y ago
  If you say we are not paying a debt to slave owners, then slave owners do not receive money. If you say we are not paying the current holder of a bond we created to pay slave owners in the past, then you damage your current credit rating. (In the worst case, potentially hurting organisations that let you have good terms for socially beneficial causes, refusing to pay back a charity that helps end slavery for example).