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 creat

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).