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Why did southern planters rely on enslaved labor?

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Why did southern planters rely on enslaved labor? = The Southern planters could not cultivate rice properly so they decided to bring in those that could. West Africans were used to cultivating rice brcause they had done it for centuries so enslaved Africand were brought in to do it for the planters

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