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As Barrie England's reference indicates, it was originally neutral, and therefor not an epithet. The question that is not being addressed in any of the answers so far is the process by which the neutral term became one. The answer to this is of course is the entire history of the relationship between the white and negro races over the past 500 years or so, but I'm guessing it did not become a widely used term of derision until black people started getting 'uppity'. That is, when most of them 'knew their place' and there was no push-back, the term was neutral. Only when they began to be a 'problem' and the whites had cause for fear and resentment, did it take on the shades it has had for the past (guessing again) century and a half.