*prev anon* Before anyone says that I’m woobifying Flint… What I meant was even if we’ll assume that Flint fought out of rage, it’s not like the months he spend on the Maroon island did not have effect on him. It’s not a stretch to think that after having Thomas back and looking for a less violent way to get out, they would approach Oglethorpe and work their magic on him. Giving him the idea to turn the camp into something better, to ban slavery, etc.

I can fully imagine James getting Thomas back and being loathe to put him in danger through trying to break out. I can also fully imagine Thomas dredging up some bit of himself that’s been beaten half to death to persuade one last person one last time that he should listen to Thomas and things proceeding from there. I can’t imagine Thomas not boiling with anger the entire time, though, that he has to beg and plead and argue for his freedom – that he has to play the reasonable man that he once was in order to be allowed to do anything so radical as be free again. I mean – put yourself in Thomas’ shoes. He’s been taken from his family. He’s been tortured, imprisoned, abused in every possible way, enslaved – and now he must be patient? I can imagine him finding it in him, but I can also imagine him getting James back and finding the bit of himself that’s been burning with rage this entire time, much the way Miranda was.