By Danilo Dovgoborets and Weibin Han This blog post was written for the course "Current Issues in Global and EU Affairs", which took place from February 12-April 30, 2018. A Currier & Ives print depicting a whaling expedition Image credit: Library of Congress via Wikimedia Commons British academic Paul Gilroy in his seminal work The Black Atlantic (1993) explores the role slavery played in transatlantic relations and the capitalist system. Besides the triangular slave trade between Europe, Africa and the Americas, another industry that emerged in the picture is whaling , trade that was dominated by the Inuit (Eskimo) of eastern and western North America even before the Europeans’ arrival. Stephanie Pettigrew and Elizabeth Mancke (2018) have suggested that Dano-Norwegian claims on Greenland fisheries shaped the early modern North-Atlantic geopolitics. It affected the establishment of European settlements in North America and their later integration into Euro-Atla