Chattel slavery, also called traditional slavery, is so named because people are treated as the chattel (personal property) of the owner and are bought and sold as commodities. Typically, under the chattel slave system, slave status was imposed on children of the enslaved at birth
Some children in poor countries are born into it still or is it different because they are a different colour these days?
I was speaking to western countries, I should have been clearer.
Not really. It's western countries that had them picking cotton!