I would like to think that Silver only found out about Thomas actually being alive after hearing that Madi died, that would make it easier to point at that moment and say "that's (probably) where he changed his mind." (That would mean that Morgen would have had to get back to the camp to tell him, when he probably tried to return to Nassau first, but maybe he heard about the Spanish coming to Nassau and came to the right conclusion.)
Yes, Silver wasn't the only one not on board with Flint's war (and Flint was going way too far with his plans imo.) (Here the problem comes into play that we don't see enough of the maroons and escaped slaves to be able to tell how many of them wanted it. There is a lot of emphasis on how pirate captains are dependent on being able to convince their crews that their way is the right way, on how Flint's and Silver's superpower is convincing people to follow them, so that we can assume that when a pirate crew does something (that last longer than one or at most two battles) the crew has agreed to it. While in the maroon camp we only ever see the "queen" (is there a name for her? Has fandom decided on a name for her?) deciding, and later Madi, and they have much authority and are clearly highly respected but we don't know how much the rest of the camp agrees with them, especially since Madi apparently inherited her position. It's a less democratic system of government than the pirates have. We don't know about Julius, but with him what also comes into play is that, as Madi said, Silver deliberately influenced him.)
I'm not really mad that Silver was against the war, personally. I can understand that. But he seemed to not even fully understand why some people, why Madi in particular, might want it so bad, he seemed to dismiss the potential gains and what Madi (and Flint) wanted to reach, and that I found infuriating. He made a choice for other people that he had no right to make and he didn't even properly consider what that choice meant. (At the very least they could have held out for a better treaty, I'm convinced they were in a position where they could have reached that.)
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Yes, Silver wasn't the only one not on board with Flint's war (and Flint was going way too far with his plans imo.) (Here the problem comes into play that we don't see enough of the maroons and escaped slaves to be able to tell how many of them wanted it. There is a lot of emphasis on how pirate captains are dependent on being able to convince their crews that their way is the right way, on how Flint's and Silver's superpower is convincing people to follow them, so that we can assume that when a pirate crew does something (that last longer than one or at most two battles) the crew has agreed to it. While in the maroon camp we only ever see the "queen" (is there a name for her? Has fandom decided on a name for her?) deciding, and later Madi, and they have much authority and are clearly highly respected but we don't know how much the rest of the camp agrees with them, especially since Madi apparently inherited her position. It's a less democratic system of government than the pirates have. We don't know about Julius, but with him what also comes into play is that, as Madi said, Silver deliberately influenced him.)
I'm not really mad that Silver was against the war, personally. I can understand that. But he seemed to not even fully understand why some people, why Madi in particular, might want it so bad, he seemed to dismiss the potential gains and what Madi (and Flint) wanted to reach, and that I found infuriating. He made a choice for other people that he had no right to make and he didn't even properly consider what that choice meant.
(At the very least they could have held out for a better treaty, I'm convinced they were in a position where they could have reached that.)
Thanks for the rec, I enjoyed that :)