Since the publication of Carolina Clay, Leonard Todd has spoken on Dave at many cultural venues, including the Smithsonian Institution, the Atlanta History Center, The Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts (MESDA), and the Decatur Book Festival. He also has been a guest on NPR's "Weekend Edition," "To the Best of Our Knowledge," and "The African-American Literary Review," among other shows.

In May of 2010, he traveled to England to lecture on Dave at Harris Manchester College, one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford. It's Principal, Dr. Ralph Waller, had been intrigued by Dave's story ever since the author first told him about it almost ten years before. The lecture was held in the Charles Wellbeloved Room in the main academic building of HMC. The members of the audience, well aware of the role that England played in the international slave trade, had many incisive comments and questions at the end of the talk. The dialog continued at a reception and, later in the week, at a dinner for the faculty of the college.