Are you talking about people born into slavery? Like from slave parents. Because the transition from non slave to slave is some form of kidnapping/trafficking.
The conversion of something to property is almost always a theft of some sort.
There are people in the South Asian sub continent as well as SEAsia where families will sell other members into slavery for varying economic and social reasons. It involves no kidnapping.
Sometimes it's for very menial and manual labor (tea picking, for example, next time someone enjoys some Assam tea) or are later sold into human trafficking rings.
Slavery isn't defined as an inherently legal practice, it simply was legal in some places at some times.
The secondarily linked story does also talk about local law enforcement being involved, so that is at least condoned "in a way", not "not in any way".