Eric Lott, in his book Uncle Tomitudes: Racial Melodrama and Modes of Production, estimates that at least three million people saw these plays, ten times the book's first-year sales.
埃里克·洛特（Eric Lott）在他的《托米图德斯叔叔：种族话剧与作品模式》（Uncle Tomitudes: Racial Melodrama and Modes of Production）中估计，至少有三百万人曾观看过这类演出，其数目是小说发表头一年里发售量的十倍之多。