Barkley was the first woman to circumnavigate the world, and the first European woman to visit the Pacific Northwest and Hawaiian Islands
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But that, like many other boys-only versions of history, is inaccurate. Women shipped out on some trading and exploring voyages from Europe, and their stories have begun to be told as feminist demands for a full accounting of women’s roles in history have begun to be fulfilled. Also emerging from the darkness of narrative neglect are the stories of the women living in the regions that suffered European mercantile and colonial imperialism.
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