Oh, not to worry, those debts have been rehypothecated so many times there will be a flock of Simon Legrees chasing the debtors.
The lawyers will be the last ones to get rich before the denouement.
It is unclear if Legree is based on an actual individuals. Reports surfaced after the 1870s that Stowe had in mind a wealthy cotton and sugar plantation owner named Meredith Calhoun, who settled on the Red River north of Alexandria, Louisiana. Generally, however, the personal characteristics of Calhoun ("highly educated and refined") do not match the uncouthness and brutality of Legree. Calhoun even edited his own newspaper, published in Colfax, originally "Calhoun's Landing", renamed the National Democrat after Calhoun's death. However, Calhoun's overseers may have been in line with the hated Legree's methods and motivations.[27]
Interesting write-up of Legree in Wiki. Just thought I'd share it. Uncle Tom's Cabin
Modeled after democrat slave owners. Beating God out of a man, exploiting women and girls, greed. Have the democrats really come into modern life? Are they really all that civilized from the time of Uncle Tom's Cabin.