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This is the first time I've ever heard Keith type slugs were designed to scrape black powder fouling out of the bore. Everything I've read, for decades, including from Keith himself, always said he designed the sharp shoulder on his slugs for maximum shock on game, and they cut nice clean holes in paper, as well.
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That's the way I remember Elmer Keith writing about it in either "Sixguns" or "Hell, I was There". It's possible my memory is faulty. The flat point was for shock effect, but the shoulder just above where the bullet enters the casing was to scrape fouling outta the bore from previous shots. I recall him going into detail about the proper alloy of lead/tin so it would completely fill out the fine details of the bullet mold and keep that shoulder as sharp/square as possible so it could do its job.