 Upon receiving this petition, the members of the Institution agreed with their findings.Cuffe and the black entrepreneurs together founded the Friendly Society of Sierra Leone as a mutual-aid merchant group dedicated to furthering prosperity and industry among the free peoples in the colony, and loosening the stranglehold that the English merchants held on trade.At the invitation of the African Institution, Cuffe sailed to Great Britain to secure further aid for the colony, arriving in Liverpool in July, 1811.