Los textos políticos más significativos de Barbauld son: "An Address to the Opposers of the Repeal of the Corporation and Test Acts" (1790), "Epistle to William Wilberforce on the Rejection of the Bill for Abolishing the Slave Trade" (1791), "Sins of Government, Sins of the Nation" (1793), y "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven" (1812).