A slave who tried to starve him or herself was tortured. If torture didn't work, the slave was force fed with the help of a contraption called a speculum orum, which held the mouth open.Despite the captain's desire to keep as many slaves as possible alive, Middle Passage mortality rates were high.
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Bronson, whose given name was Buchinsky, lost his father when he was ten years old. When he was 16, he joined his older brothers working in the coal mines. In 1943, Bronson was drafted into the Army. First stationed in Kingman, Arizona, Bronson soon found himself part of the 760th Flexible Gunnery Training Squadron.