She arrived in Boston around the same period Samuel Gridley Howe brought John Celivergos Zachos and Christophorus Plato Castanis and other Greek refuges.

American painter and miniaturist Ann Hall created a miniature portrait of the Greek slave girl.

In 1843, 19th-century American poet Hannah Flagg Gould was inspired by Ann Hall's miniature portrait, of which she had an engraving.

She wrote a poem, "Garafilia's Picture", which was featured in her book The Golden Vase A Gift for the Young.

[8] Sarah Josepha Hale American writer, and Activist best known for Thanksgiving in 1853 featured an article in her book Woman's Record Or, Sketches of All Distinguished Women about Garafilia.

In 1851, Christophoros Plato Kastanes published his book which features a chapter about his experience as a runaway slave from Chios in war-torn Greece.

Harriet Beecher Stowe in The Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin, alludes to using the Greek slave girl Garafilia as inspiration for Uncle Tom's Cabin by writing “I was in Smyrna when our American consul ransomed a beautiful Greek girl in the slave-market.

[16] Other Greek–Americans who were former slaves include Christophorus Castanis, George Colvocoresses, Joseph Stephanini, and Halet Logotheti.