[2] He published an autobiography titled The Greek Exile in 1851, which told of his survival of the Chios massacre, his time in Ottoman slavery, and his emigration to America.

[9][10] American abolitionist and Philhellene Samuel Gridley Howe sponsored his migration to the US, along with Garafilia Mohalbi and John Celivergos Zachos.

[11][12] According to Castanis, around forty Greek orphans emigrated to the United States in similar circumstances during this period.

[13] Some modern scholars, including Gonda Van Steen and Foteini Tomai, verify this, although question the nature of their 'orphan' status.

For example, Washington, DC's The Republic newspaper reported on his 1849 book, Oriental Amusing, Instructive, and Moral Literary Dialogues: Comprising the Love and Disappointment of a Turk of Rank in the City of Washington, claiming it "…is made the vehicle, in a conversational form, of conveying the expression of the author’s republican sympathies in behalf of Greece and Turkey, as well as of discussing some philological questions, intended to prove that modern Greeks pronounce their language as the ancients did.